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Foreign direct investment and productivity spillovers: is China different?

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  • Hongzhong Fan
  • Shi He
  • Yum K. Kwan

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Drawing on a unique dataset from 41 studies on foreign direct investment productivity spillovers in China, our prime objective is to estimate spillover effects accounting for publication bias using meta-regression analysis. Robust to different specifications, we find that the publication bias-corrected horizontal/backward/forward spillover effects are consistently positive and economically significant. Interestingly, our findings show that China gains more horizontal and backward spillover effects than the average world.

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  • Hongzhong Fan & Shi He & Yum K. Kwan, 2019. "Foreign direct investment and productivity spillovers: is China different?," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(20), pages 1675-1682, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:26:y:2019:i:20:p:1675-1682
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2019.1591591
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