Identifying FDI spillovers
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In this paper, the authors improved on the strategy used in the literature to identify the spillover effect of horizontal foreign direct investment (FDI) by taking advantage of the plausibly exogenous relaxation of FDI regulations on China's World Trade Organization accession at the end of 2001.About:
This article is published in Journal of International Economics.The article was published on 2017-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 281 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Spillover effect & Foreign direct investment.read more
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Foreign Direct Investment and Air Pollution: Re-Estimating the “Pollution Haven Hypothesis” in China
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Gender segregation in the causal effect of foreign direct investment on educational attainment: the Chinese experience
TL;DR: The authors examined the causal effect of foreign direct investment on educational attainment through the lens of gender segregation in China and found that a more prominent FDI presence causes higher educational attainment, particularly for women.
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Special economic zones, export status, and firms’ productivity: Theory and evidence from China
TL;DR: In this article , the authors explored the impact of special economic zones (SEZs) policy and export status on firms' productivity and showed that preferential policies are responsible for the productivity ranking of firms.
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