I estimate establishment level total factor productivity (TFP) convergence using panel data from India's manufacturing sector from 2001-2015. I examine the presence of foreign owned establishments within each industry's productivity frontier, and allow for the speed of productivity convergence...

We develop a simple test to assess whether horizontal spillover effects from multinational to domestic firms are endogenous to the market structure generated by the incremental entry of the same multinationals. In particular, we analyze the performance of a panel of 10,650 firms operating in...

This paper adopts multilevel analysis to analyze the agglomeration-performance nexus for domestic firms in Sub-Saharan Africa. We show that contextual factors such as country, city and industry together explain up to 30% of the variance in firms' productivity. Our results show also that African...