Costa Rica

The Effects of Joining Multinational Supply Chains: New Evidence from Firm-to-Firm Linkages

We study the effects of becoming a supplier to multinational corporations (MNCs) using tax data tracking firm-to-firm transactions in Costa Rica.

Journal Article
29 Jan 2022

The Effects of Multinationals on Workers: Evidence from Costa Rica

This paper estimates the effects of multinational corporations (MNCs) on workers. To that end, Alfaro-Ureña et al.

Working Paper
1 Apr 2021

Multinational and Economic Development

Can local firms boost their productivity by supplying to multinational firms? This project tries to answer this question using a novel, administrative dataset from Costa Rica.

Research Project
19 Nov 2018

The Impact of FDI through the Production Network: Evidence from Costa Rica

A long-standing debate has focused on the extent to which attracting foreign capital to a country can not only push the productivity frontier of receiving sectors, but also induce productivity catch-up throughout the economy.

Research Note
1 Mar 2018

The Impact of FDI through the Production Network: Evidence from Costa Rica

This project studies the impact of FDI and multinational firms’ entry on domestic firms’ productivity in Costa Rica.

Research Project
28 Feb 2017