This paper explores whether the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on productivity growth is dependent on …-exploiting multinationals are prevalent, the results point to the presence of nonlinear threshold effects: the productivity benefit from FDI … minimum absorptive capacity threshold level below which productivity spillovers from FDI are negligible or even negative. On …

' productivity and technology transfer. We ask the following research questions: First, what is the nature of the relationship … between political connection and productivity, and does this relationship explain firms' productivity and innovation efforts … negative effects on their total factor productivity and research and development expenditure from their political connections …