Episode 13: Isabela Manelici on Productivity and Multinationals

Isabela Manelici is an IES Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Economics at Princeton University.

The paper discussed in this episode is: “The Effects of Joining Multinational Supply Chains: New Evidence from Firm-to-Firm Linkages”, by Alonso Alfaro-Ureña, Isabela Manelici, and Jose Pablo Vasquez Carvajal.

Other papers discussed in this episode are:

Bernard, A. B., Dhyne, E., Magerman, G., Manova, K., & Moxnes, A. (2019). The origins of firm heterogeneity: A production network approach (No. w25441). National Bureau of Economic Research.

Smarzynska Javorcik, B. (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.

Woodruff, C. (2018). Addressing constraints to small and growing businesses. International Growth Centre, London.