diffusion of technology, and provides fresh evidence on the effects that these differences have on productivity and innovation …pt. 1. The changing role of multinational firms in innovation -- pt. 2. How firms differ in innovation, productivity … and internationalism -- pt. 3. Firm heterogeneity, multinationals and spillovers …

-18 -- Xiaming Liu, Pamela Siler, Chengqi Wang and Yingqi Wei (2000), 'Productivity Spillovers From Foreign Direct Investment … Strobl (2001), 'Multinational Companies and Productivity Spillovers: A Meta-Analysis', Economic Journal, 111 (475), November … Javorcik (2004), 'Does Foreign Direct Investment Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms? In Search of Spillovers Through …

-Cambridge controversies in capital theory for econometric practice /G.C. Harcourt --Foreign direct investment and productivity spillovers : a … distribution of manufacturing productivity in the EU regions /Bernand Fingleton and Enrique López-Bazo --The role of wage …

of wage inequality between high-skilled and low-skilled workers, and the relatively low productivity growth experienced … technological revolution, describe why this does not necessarily result in high productivity growth and outline the best methods to … measure productivity in the new economy. This exhaustive exploration of productivity growth and wage inequality between high …

The definition and measurement of productivity in services raises important conceptual, methodological and strategic … problems. This book aims to provide a critical review of the main debates on productivity in the domain of services. The first … part examines the theoretical consequences of services specificities on the concept of productivity and reviews the …

1. Introduction : what is the New Economy? / Dennis W. Jansen -- 2. Projecting productivity growth : lessons from the … multifactor productivity in US service industries / Jack E. Triplett and Barry P. Bosworth -- 4. The New Economy and the …

This book explores the relationship between exports and productivity. Whilst a body of research indicates that … exporters have superior productivity to non-exporters, received wisdom suggests that this is because productive firms became …

important contributions. Firstly, it elaborates the hypothesis that total factor productivity growth stems from pecuniary …