We estimate international technology spillovers to US manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment … productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI spillovers is economically important, accounting for about 14% of … productivity growth in US firms between 1987-96. In addition, there is some evidence for imports-related spillovers, but it is …

Convergence in per capita income across countries turns on whether technological knowledge spillovers are global or … local in a large class of models. This Paper estimates the amount of spillovers from R&D expenditures in major … local, not global, as the benefits from foreign spillovers are declining with distance. I estimate that the distance at …

Convergence in per capita income turns on whether technological knowledge spillovers are global or local. Global … spillovers favour convergence, while a geographically limited scope of knowledge diffusion can lead to regional clusters of …

This paper considers how input market liberalization affects host country productivity spillovers from multinational … corporation (MNC) investments. The standard “Backward Linkage” measure used to estimate technology and learning spillovers to … domestic inputs, mean backward linkage productivity spillovers reduce in half when the share of locally sourced inputs is …