-level data to identify FDI spillovers across countries, sectors and time. The analysis suggests that knowledge-related spillovers … from FDI vary considerably across sectors. Services industries enjoy the strongest productivity-enhancing effects of FDI …, particularly through backward linkages. There is no strong evidence of horizontal productivity spillovers at the aggregate level …

competitiveness and resilience of domestic firms. …

investment, followed by a sizable decrease in firm productivity. From the different types of conditions, sector-wide FDI bans …-specific investment policy reform on firm productivity. Hereby we exploit a protectionist foreign direct investment reform (the so … since. Our empirical analysis links the changes within this regulatory framework to variation in firm-level productivity in …