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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