of foreign direct investment: only the more productive firms choose to serve the foreign markets, and the most productive …

direct investment ; productivity ; heterogeneous firms ; stochastic dominance … or foreign direct investment: only the more productive firms choose to serve the foreign markets, and the most productive … first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of foreign …

-1997 period, this paper examines the impact of foreign presence on the productivity of domestic enterprises. We innovate on … domestic performances: productivity gaps between foreign and domestic firms, and productivity levels of MNEs. It is shown that … it is the combination of high gaps and high levels of foreign productivity that has the most positive effects. This leads …

augmenting the role of capital, in combination with productivity gains, as a driver of agricultural growth. The results indicate … that total factor productivity increased at an average rate of 3.2 percent, accounting for 59 percent of overall growth …