[Abrigo, M. R. and Love, I. 2016. Estimation of panel vector autoregression in Stata: a package of programs. Stata Journal 16 (3): 778-804.10.1177/1536867X1601600314]Search in Google Scholar
[Acemoglu D. and Zilibotti F. 1999. Information accumulation in development. Journal of Economic Growth 4 (1): 5-38.10.1023/A:1009833807671]Search in Google Scholar
[Alfaro, L., Chanda, A., Kalemli-Ozcan, S., and Sayek, S. 2004. FDI and economic growth: the role of local financial markets. Journal of International Economics 64 (1): 89–112.10.1016/S0022-1996(03)00081-3]Search in Google Scholar
[Aw, B. Y., Chung, S. and Roberts, M. J. 2000. Productivity and turnover in the export market: Micro-level evidence from the Republic of Korea and Taiwan (China). The World Bank Economic Review 14 (1): 65–90.10.1093/wber/14.1.65]Search in Google Scholar
[Barba Navaretti, G. and Venables, A. 2006. Multinational firms in the world economy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.]Search in Google Scholar
[Benhabib, J. and Spiegel, M. M. 1994. The role of human capital in economic development: Evidence from aggregate cross-country data. Journal of Monetary Economics 34 (2): 143-17410.1016/0304-3932(94)90047-7]Search in Google Scholar
[Bernard, A., Jensen, J., Redding, S., and Schott, P. 2007. Firms in international trade. Journal of Economic Perspectives 21 (3): 105-130.10.1257/jep.21.3.105]Search in Google Scholar
[Blalock, G. and Gertler, P. J. 2008. Welfare gains from foreign direct investment through technology transfer to cocal suppliers. Journal of International Economics 74 (2): 402–421.10.1016/j.jinteco.2007.05.011]Search in Google Scholar
[Blomstrom, M. and Kokko, A. 1994. Home country effects of foreign direct investment: Evidence from Sweden. NBER Working Papers 4639.10.3386/w4639]Search in Google Scholar
[Blomstrom, M. and Kokko, A. 1998. Multinational corporations and spillovers. Journal of Economic Surveys 12 (3): 247–77.10.1111/1467-6419.00056]Search in Google Scholar
[Borensztein, E., De Gregorio, J., and Lee, J.-W. 1998. How does foreign direct investment affect economic growth? Journal of International Economics, 45 (1): 115–135.]Search in Google Scholar
[Bruegel Pack, H. and Saggi, K. 2001. Vertical technology transfer via international outsourcing. Journal of Development Economics 65 (2): 389–415.10.1016/S0304-3878(01)00142-0]Search in Google Scholar
[Coe, D. and Helpman, E. 1995. International R&D spillovers. European Economic Review 39 (5): 859–887.10.1016/0014-2921(94)00100-E]Search in Google Scholar
[Coe, D., Helpman, E. and Hoffmaister, A. W. 2009. International R&D spillovers and institutions. European Economic Review 53 (7): 723–741.10.1016/j.euroecorev.2009.02.005]Search in Google Scholar
[Coe, D., Helpman, E., and Hoffmaister, A. 1997. North-South R&D spillovers. Economic Journal 107 (440): 134–49.10.1111/1468-0297.00146]Search in Google Scholar
[Comin, D. and Hobijn, B. 2004. Cross-country technology adoption: making the theories face the facts. Journal of Monetary Economics 51 (1): 39-83.10.1016/j.jmoneco.2003.07.003]Search in Google Scholar
[Crespo Cuaresma, J., Scharler, J., and Nationalbank, O. 2004. On the determinants of absorptive capacity: Evidence from OECD Countries. Proceedings of OeNB Workshops: Workshop No. 02.]Search in Google Scholar
[Damijan, J.P., Polanec, S., and Prasnikar, J. 2004. Self-selection, export market heterogeneity and productivity improvements: Firm level evidence from Slovenia. LICOS Discussion Papers: Discussion Paper 148/2004.]Search in Google Scholar
[De Loecker, J. 2007. Do exports generate higher productivity? Evidence from Slovenia. Journal of International Economics 73 (1): 69–98.10.1016/j.jinteco.2007.03.003]Search in Google Scholar
[Falvey, R. E., Foster, N. and Greenaway, D. 2002. North-South trade, knowledge spillovers and growth. Journal of Economic Integration 17 (4): 650-670.10.11130/jei.2002.17.4.650]Search in Google Scholar
[Falvey, R., Foster, N. and Greenaway, D. 2004. Imports, exports, knowledge spillovers and growth. Economics Letters 85 (2): 209–213.10.1016/j.econlet.2004.04.007]Search in Google Scholar
[Feenstra, R. C., Inklaar, R., and Timmer, M. P. 2015. The next generation of the Penn World Table. American Economic Review 105 (10): 3150-3182.10.1257/aer.20130954]Search in Google Scholar
[Findlay, R. 1978. Relative backwardness, direct foreign investment, and the transfer of technology: A simple dynamic model. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 92 (1): 1–16.10.2307/1885996]Search in Google Scholar
[Fryges, H. and Wagner, J. 2007. Exports and oroductivity growth first evidence from a continuous treatment approach. Review of World Economics 144 (4): 695-722.10.1007/s10290-008-0166-8]Search in Google Scholar
[Funk, M. 2001. Trade and international R&D spillovers among OECD countries. Southern Economic Journal 67 (3): 725–736.]Search in Google Scholar
[Girma, S. and Görg, H. 2007. The role of the efficiency gap for spillovers from FDI: Evidence from the UK electronics and engineering sectors. Open Economies Review 18 (2): 215–232.10.1007/s11079-007-9031-y]Search in Google Scholar
[Girma, S., Greenaway, S. D., and Kneller, R. 2003. Export market exit and performance dynamics: A causality analysis of matched firms. Economics Letters 80 (2): 181–187.10.1016/S0165-1765(03)00092-2]Search in Google Scholar
[Girma, S., Greenaway, S. D., and Kneller, R. 2004. Does exporting increase productivity? A microeconometric analysis of matched firms. Review of International Economics 12 (5): 855–866.10.1111/j.1467-9396.2004.00486.x]Search in Google Scholar
[Globerman, S., Kokko, A., and Sjholm, F. 2000. International technology diffusion: evi-dence from Swedish patent data. Kyklos 53 (1): 17–38.10.1111/1467-6435.00107]Search in Google Scholar
[Gonalves, D. 2015. GETDATA: Stata module to import SDMX data from several providers. Boston College Department of Economics: Statistical Software Components S458093.]Search in Google Scholar
[Görg, H. and Greenaway, D. 2004. Much ado about nothing? Do domestic firms really benefit from foreign direct investment? World Bank Research Observer 19 (2): 171–197.10.1093/wbro/lkh019]Search in Google Scholar
[Greenaway, D. and Kneller, R. 2007. Industry differences in the effect of export market entry: Learning by exporting? Review of World Economics 143 (3): 416–432.10.1007/s10290-007-0115-y]Search in Google Scholar
[Griffith, R., Redding, S., and Simpson, H. 2004. Foreign ownership and productivity: New evidence from the service sector and the R&D lab. Oxford Review of Economic Policy 20 (3): 440-456.10.1093/oxrep/grh026]Search in Google Scholar
[Grossmanand, G. M. and Helpman, E. 1992. Innovation and growth in the global economy. Cambridge, MA: The MIT press.]Search in Google Scholar
[Hall, R. E. and Jones, C. 1999. Why do some countries produce so much more output per worker than others? The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 114 (1): 83–116.]Search in Google Scholar
[Halpern, L., Koren, M., and Szeidl, A. 2011. Imported inputs and productivity. The American Economic Review 105 (12): 3660-370310.1257/aer.20150443]Search in Google Scholar
[Harris, R. 2009. Spillover and backward linkage effects of FDI: Empirical evidence for the UK. Spatial Economics Research Centre, London: SERC Discussion Papers 0016.]Search in Google Scholar
[Harris, R. and Robinson, C. 2003. Foreign ownership and productivity in the United King-dom estimates for U.K. manufacturing using the ARD. Review of Industrial Organization 22 (3): 207–223.10.1023/A:1023622407571]Search in Google Scholar
[Harris, R.D. 2002. Foreign ownership and productivity in the United Kingdom - Some issues when using the ARD stablishment level data. Scottish Journal of Political Economy 49 (3): 318–335.10.1111/1467-9485.00234]Search in Google Scholar
[Harrison, A. E. and Aitken, B. J. 1999. Do domestic firms benefit from direct foreign investment? Evidence from Venezuela. American Economic Review 89 (3): 605–618.10.1257/aer.89.3.605]Search in Google Scholar
[Haskel, J., Pereira, S. C., and Slaughter, M. J. 2007. Does inward foreign direct invest-ment boost the productivity of domestic firms? The Review of Economics and Statistics 89 (3): 482–496.10.1162/rest.89.3.482]Search in Google Scholar
[Havranek, T. and Irsova, Z. 2010. Meta-analysis of intra-industry FDI spillovers: Updated evidence. Czech Journal of Economics and Finance 60 (2): 151–174.10.2139/ssrn.1140707]Search in Google Scholar
[Holtz-Eakin, D., Newey, W., and Rosen, H.S. 1988. Estimating vector auto regressions with panel data. Econometrica 56 (6): 1371-1395.10.2307/1913103]Search in Google Scholar
[Isaksson, A. 2001. The importance of human capital for the trade-growth link. Statistics and Information Networks Branch of UNIDO: Working Paper No 2.]Search in Google Scholar
[Isgut, A. 2001. What’s different about exporters? Evidence from Colombian manufacturing. Journal of Development Studies 37 (5): 57–82.10.1080/00220380412331322121]Search in Google Scholar
[Javorcik, B. and Spatareanu, M. 2008. To share or not to share: Does local participation matter for spillovers from foreign direct investment? Journal of Development Economics 85 (1-2): 194–217.10.1016/j.jdeveco.2006.08.005]Search in Google Scholar
[Javorcik, B. S. 2004. Does foreign direct investment increase the productivity of domestic firms? In search of spillovers through backward linkages. American Economic Review 94 (3): 605–627.10.1257/0002828041464605]Search in Google Scholar
[Kao, C., Chiang, M.-H., and Chen, B. 1999. International R&D spillovers: An application of estimation and inference in panel cointegration. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 61 (0): 691–709.10.1111/1468-0084.61.s1.16]Search in Google Scholar
[Keller, W. 2000. Do trade patterns and technology flows affect productivity growth? World Bank Economic Review 14 (1): 17–47.10.1093/wber/14.1.17]Search in Google Scholar
[Keller, W. 2004. International technology diffusion. Journal of Economic Literature 42 (3): 752–782.10.1257/0022051042177685]Search in Google Scholar
[Keller, W. 2009. International trade, foreign direct investment, and technology spillovers. Handbook of the Economics of Innovation 2: 793-829.]Search in Google Scholar
[Keller, W. and Yeaple, S. 2009. Multinational enterprises, international trade, and produc-tivity growth: Firm-level evidence from the United States. The Review of Economics and Statistics 91 (4): 821–831.10.1162/rest.91.4.821]Search in Google Scholar
[Kočenda, E., Kutan, A. M. and Yigit, T. M. 2006. Pilgrims to the Eurozone: How far, how fast? Economic Systems 30 (4): 311-327.]Search in Google Scholar
[Kutan, A. M. and Yigit, T. M. 2009. European integration, productivity growth and real convergence: Evidence from the New Member States. Economic Systems 33 (2): 127-137.10.1016/j.ecosys.2009.03.002]Search in Google Scholar
[Markusen, J. and Venables, A. 1999. Foreign direct investment as a catalyst for industrial development. European Economic Review 43 (2): 335–356.10.1016/S0014-2921(98)00048-8]Search in Google Scholar
[Martin, R. and Winkler, A. 2009. Real convergence in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. UK, London: Palgrave Macmillan.10.1057/9780230235434]Search in Google Scholar
[Mayer, J. 2001. Technology diffusion, human capital and economic growth in developing countries. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development: Discussion Papers No.154.]Search in Google Scholar
[Melitz, M. J. 2003. The impact of trade on intra-industry real locations and aggregate industry productivity. Econometrica 71 (6): 1695–1725.10.1111/1468-0262.00467]Search in Google Scholar
[Merikll, J., Poltimae, H., and Paas, T. 2013. International technology diffusion. Eastern European Economics 51 (2): 21–38.10.2753/EEE0012-8775510202]Search in Google Scholar
[Nelson, R. R. and Phelps, E. S. 1966. Investment in humans, technological diffusion, and economic growth. The American Economic Review 56 (2): 69-75.]Search in Google Scholar
[Nicolini, M. and Resmini, L. 2010. FDI spillovers in New EU Eember States. The Economics of Transition 18 (3): 487–511.10.1111/j.1468-0351.2009.00379.x]Search in Google Scholar
[Ottaviano, G. and Mayer, T. 2008. The happy few: The internationalisation of European firms. Intereconomics 43 (3): 135-148.10.1007/s10272-008-0247-x]Search in Google Scholar
[Parente, S. L. and Prescott, E. C. 2005. A unified theory of the evolution of international income levels. Handbook of Economic Growth 1 (B): 1371-1416.10.1016/S1574-0684(05)01021-X]Search in Google Scholar
[Phillips, P. and Sul, D. 2007. Transition modeling and econometric convergence tests. Econometrica 75 (6): 1771–1855.10.1111/j.1468-0262.2007.00811.x]Search in Google Scholar
[Renard, M. F., ed. 2002. China and its regions. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.]Search in Google Scholar
[Sjholm, F. 1996. International transfer of knowledge: The role of international trade and geographic proximity. Review of World Economics 132 (1): 97–115.]Search in Google Scholar
[Wagner, J. 2007. Exportsand productivity: A survey of the evidence from firm-level Data. The World Economy 30 (1): 60–82.10.1111/j.1467-9701.2007.00872.x]Search in Google Scholar
[Wooster, R. and Diebel, D. S. 2010. Productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment in developing countries: A meta-regression analysis. Review of Development Economics 14 (s1): 640–655.10.1111/j.1467-9361.2010.00579.x]Search in Google Scholar
[Xu, B. 2000. Trade, FDI, and international technology diffusion. Journal of Economic Integration 15: 585–601.]Search in Google Scholar
[Xu, B. and Wang, J. 1999. Capital goods trade and R&D spillovers in the OECD. Canadian Journal of Economics 32 (5): 1258–1274.10.2307/136481]Search in Google Scholar
[Yasar, M. and Morrison Paul, C. J. 2007. International linkages and productivity at theplant level: Foreign direct investment, exports, imports and licensing. Journal of International Economics 71 (2): 373–388.10.1016/j.jinteco.2006.03.004]Search in Google Scholar