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Do large firms generate positive productivity spillovers?

Mary Amiti, Cedric Duprez, Jozef Konings and John Van Reenen


The potentially negative effects of market concentration on consumers and workers has received much attention, but Mary Amiti, Cedric Duprez, Jozef Konings and John Van Reenen find that big firms can also promote productivity in the wider economy. Analysing data from Belgium, they find that being global is not necessary for such benefits, with large domestic firms generating spillovers of the same magnitude as multinationals.


20 February 2024     Paper Number CEPCP677

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This CentrePiece article is published under the centre's Growth programme.

This publication comes under the following theme: Management practices and productivity