The purpose of the paper is two-fold. The paper compares productivity of Russian firms that received foreign direct investments, and fully domestically owned firms. It also analyses spillovers from foreign-owned firs. At the same time, there are positive spillovers between foreign-owned and...

This study examines whether the influence of foreign ownership helps domestic firms in an emerging market economy, India, globalize their operations. The extent of operations globalization is captured as exporting behavior, which is measured as the ratio of export sales to total sales. Foreign...

The paper both compares productivity of Russian firms that have foreign direct investments with productivity of fully domestically owned firms and analyses spillovers from foreign-owned firms to domestic firms. Foreign firms are found to be more productive than domestic ones, but productivity of...

In recent years, international capital flows of all types have increased dramatically and most governments have been actively encouraging inflows of direct investment. However, concerns remain that reliance on foreign multinationals may be a risky development strategy as foreign firms are likely...