on productivity spillovers, i.e., technological externalities. In this paper we emphasise that pecuniary externalities …. Traditionally the empirical literature measuring spillovers to the host economy arising from foreign direct investment has focused …

We investigate the impact of international outsourcing on productivity using plant level data for Irish manufacturing … on productivity is different for plants being more embedded in international markets through exporting or being part of a …

While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this … immediately prior to opening up their own firm have higher productivity growth than other domestic firms. This suggests that these … firm. We do not find any positive effects on firm level productivity if the owner had experience in multinationals in other …