characteristics and parent productivity. Using data on Italian firms, we show that foreign direct investors differ in their … productivity level according to their characteristics and their investment decisions. Larger parents by employment or sales tend to … firms, we show econometrically that having more and larger affiliates in rich countries leads to higher ex-post productivity …

correlation between the sales of foreign affiliates and the productivity of multinational firms. Our main empirical results in …

plants exist. The results indicate that divestment is associated with a drop in total factor productivity accompanied by a …

plants exist. The results indicate that divestment is associated with a drop in total factor productivity accompanied by a …

-firm trade are its larger size and higher productivity level. Its size premia range between 31.5% and 56.3% and its productivity …

for plant size and productivity, we find that foreign plants are significantly more likely to close than comparable …

-border versus foreign affiliate sales. We find that for firms in our sample productivity is both a statistically significant and …

tended to export from high-wage countries but the high productivity in such countries more than offset the high wages …

Foreign-owned firms are often hypothesized to generate productivity "spillovers" to the host country, but both …-ante identical workers learn from their employers in proportion to the firm?s productivity. Foreign-owned firms have, on average …, higher productivity in equilibrium due to entry costs, which means that low-productivity foreign firms cannot enter. Foreign …

for plant size and productivity, we find that foreign plants are significantly more likely to close than comparable …