“…While most of the existing research into foreign investment spillovers in developing countries focuses on productivity spillovers, fewer studies have examined the effects of foreign firms on the exporting activities of local enterprises. Although there is considerable evidence in support of the view that foreign firms have positive export spillover effects on domestic firms in developing countries (Aitken et al, ; Greenaway & Kneller, ; Greenaway et al, ; Lutz, Talavera, & Park, ; Nguyen & Sun, ; Sun & Anwar, ), other studies find no or even negative effects (Barrios, Görg, & Strobl, ; Chakraborty, Mukherjee, Lee, & Ki‐Dong, ; Estrin, Meyer, Wright, & Foliano, ; Meyer & Sinani, ). Using a large Vietnamese firm‐level data set, we address a number of questions about the relationship between foreign investment and the exporting activities of domestic firms.…”