Foreign investment, innovation capacity and environmental efficiency in China

Foreign Direct Investment, Absorptive Capacity and Regional Innovation Capabilities: Evidence from China

Innovation has widely been regarded as one of the main drivers of economic growth in the knowledge economy. This paper investigates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the development of regional innovation capabilities using a panel dataset from China. It finds that FDI has a significant positive impact on the overall regional innovation capacity. FDI intensity is also positively ...

Foreign direct investment concessions and environmental levies in China

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Environmental Regulations and Foreign Direct Investment Provincial Evidence from China

Foreign Portfolio Investment and Corporate Innovation

We investigate whether foreign institutional ownership impacts corporate innovation. Using firm-level data from 30 countries in 2001-2010, we find that higher foreign institutional ownership is associated with more investment in R&D and patents. Using the exogenous increase in foreign institutional holdings that follows a firm’s addition to the Morgan Stanley Capital International World Index, ...

Regional Innovation and Spillover Effects of Foreign Direct Investment in China: A Threshold Approach by

Using a data set on 29 Chinese provinces for the period 1985-2008, this paper establishes a threshold model to analyse the relationship between spillover effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) and regional innovation in China. There is clear evidence of doublethreshold effects of regional innovation on productivity spillovers from FDI. Specifically, only when the level of regional innovatio...