中国的外资优惠政策应该取消了吗?——基于东道国政府之间FDI竞争的视角

东道国政府之间对FDI的争夺主要在相邻的国家之间进行,且竞争主要集中于效率寻求型FDI中的低技术制成品及中技术和高技术中的简单终端产品。本文对我国与其他国家之间的FDI竞争进行了实证研究,发现中国虽然已成为了吸引外资最多的国家,但是中国并未成为所有外资的必选之地,在吸引外资方面,中国还面临着其他发展中国家的激烈竞争。不过短期内,中国在吸引外资方面还能继续保持优势地位。从国际竞争的角度看,为了保持和提高我国对FDI的竞争力,我国目前取消外资优惠政策的时机还不成熟。     

国际投资中污染产业转移的实证分析

国际投资中污染产业转移的问题受到了发达国家和发展中国家的普遍关注。理论分析认为,由于各国的环境标准存在差异,因而导致污染产业从环境标准高的国家转移到环境标准低的国家。在实际中是否存在这种现象以及转移的范围及程度多大则需要实证分析来验证。本文的实证分析表明:环境标准与污染产业转移之间并不存在必然的联系。     

FDI对我国东、中、西部就业影响的实证分析

改革开放以来,流入我国的FDI规模迅速增长,而近年来就业日益成为中国理论界和政府部门关注的一个焦点问题。本文以中国东、中、西部地区为横截面单元,利用各横截面单元1985年～2003年的样本组成面板数据,进而建立面板数据模型来考察FDI对我国不同地区就业的影响。结果表明,FDI对我国不同地区的就业影响是有差异的。FDI对于东部地区的就业效应要小于中部和西部地区。     

浙江省原发型企业集群与FDI的关联效率研究

本文在提出并论证独特技术型和小规模技术型两种原发型企业集群的基础上,从原发型企业集群与FDI之间技术水平是否对接、产业是否同构、FDI来源地决定的FDI属性等方面,对浙江企业集群与外资的关联性进行了理论研究,并利用可得到的投入-产出数据,从产业感应度和产业影响力两方面,实证分析了浙江原发型企业集群与FDI的关联效率,发现浙江原发型企业集群的内源性竞争力影响了FDI的流入。     

FDI是否提升了本土企业出口产品质量

本文研究外资对本土企业出口产品质量的影响方向和影响渠道.研究发现:本土企业与外资企业产品质量差距扩大;外资通过生产效率、研发效率、竞争效应等渠道降低本土企业出口产品质量,通过缓解融资约束、广告效率渠道提升本土企业出口产品质量;外资企业数目增加会提升本土企业出口产品质量,但外资企业出口强度增加会降低本土企业出口产品质量;总体来看,外资不利于本土企业出口产品质量的提升.     

International investors’ reactions to cross-border acquisitions by emerging market multinationals

How do international investors react to announcements of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CM&As) by emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs)? Using a unique and manually-constructed firm-level dataset, this paper examines the stock price reactions to CM&A announcements made over the period 1991–2010 by Chinese MNEs listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the wealth impacts of their corporate governance. Our empirical findings confirm a positive stock price reaction on average, and suggest that international investors react positively to the presence of large shareholders, but negatively to the presence of institutional shareholders. There is a negative impact if the largest shareholder is either the State or the corporate founder. We suggest that this is because the international investors perceive potential principal–principal conflicts in such ownership/control constellations and discount equity prices accordingly. We also find that Board size and independence have positive effects on the price reaction, but that large supervisory boards engender negative reactions.     

基于动态面板数据模型分析FDI的环境效应

外商直接投资在对中国经济增长起到积极推动作用的同时,我们也不可忽视其可能会对我国环境造成的影响。文章通过构建环境污染综合指数,并且以东中西部为三个横截面建立动态面板数据模型来分析外商直接投资对各个地区环境的影响。结果显示,外商直接投资和东部中部地区的环境污染指数之间有正相关关系,和西部地区的环境污染指数之间是一个负相关关系。     

Institutions,resources, and internationalization of emerging economy firms

An important step in the internationalization process of emerging economy firms is the shift from exports to foreign direct investment (FDI). We integrate the resource- and institution-based views to suggest that firms that can use unique institutional advantages are more likely to make this shift. We test these arguments with a longitudinal sample of 28,563 firm-year observations (1989–2005). We found that firms that are affiliated with a business group, have more firm- and group-level international experience, have more technological and marketing resources, and operate in service industries are more likely to shift from exports to FDI.     

The potential for technology and knowledge transfers between foreign and local firms: A study of the construction industry in Ghana

Multinational corporations (MNCs) and other foreign firms can be conduits for technology and knowledge (T&K) transfer to host countries in the developing world. Most of the existing research focuses on T&K transfers through FDI and are drawn from Asia not Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), although SSA is increasingly receiving foreign investment. There is a paucity of research that gives insights into project-level T&K transfer issues in SSA countries. Using the Ghanaian construction industry as an empirical focus, this article explores T&K transfer potential. The findings reveal significant weaknesses in T&K transfer across industry subsectors and between foreign and local firms. This arises from the potentially complementary but dissimilar resource and knowledge bases. The weaknesses are compounded by the absence of coherent government T&K development policies.     

Effects of cultural institutes on bilateral trade and FDI flows: Cultural diplomacy or economic altruism?

The number of cultural institutes from major developed and developing countries increased significantly in the last twenty years. In this paper, using cross-sectional and panel data analysis on bilateral trade in goods and services, and FDI inflows and outflows, we examine the economic effects of 1,266 cultural institutes from China, France, Germany, Japan, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and UK for the period of 1990–2015. The empirical results suggest that cultural institutes have significantly positive trade and FDI enhancing effects, which are persistent over time. However, these effects are most robust only with goods exports and FDI outflows. Furthermore, the economic effects of cultural institutes are not homogenous across destinations and are the strongest for developed rather than developing host countries. There is also significant heterogeneity among cultural institutes with significant differences in their economic effects on different types of bilateral trade and FDI flows.