吸引FDI对东道国福利的影响

本文主要利用古诺竞争模型分析吸引FDI对东道国福利的影响。文章逐步深入地分析了吸引FDI进入对国内厂商利润、消费者剩余、劳动就业和政府关税收入等各方面的影响。结果发现吸引FDI并不必然地增加一国福利。同时文章还探讨了两国吸引FDI的竞争对两国福利之和的影响 ,发现通过FDI区位配置效率的改善 ,补贴战并不一定造成两国福利之和的净损失。     

引进FDI的业绩与潜力:中国与东盟的比较研究

本文运用业绩指数和潜力指数两个指标,分别对中国与东盟各国利用外资的业绩和潜力进行了比较分析。从业绩指数看,中国引进FDI的业绩不断提高,东盟各国有所下降。从潜力指数看,在未来引进FDI的潜力和竞争力上,中国潜力较高,但落后于新加坡和马来西亚;对潜力指数子要素的分析表明,中国吸引FDI的区位优势主要体现在区内市场地位和资源整合地位优势上。最后本文给出了提高中国引进FDI竞争力的建议。     

外商在京津冀直接投资的诱因分析

近年来外商对京津冀地区的直接投资不断增长,本文选取1984～2003年这三个地区外商直接投资的历史数据,建立PanelDate模型,对京津冀地区吸引FDI的原因作了一个实证分析。分析表明,该地区的集聚效应、市场规模、基础设施水平、劳动力成本对外商直接投资均有显著的影响。     

吸收FDI对我国经济安全的影响及其对策

本文首先对我国吸收FDI的现状进行了分析,随后从外贸依存度、生产依存度、投资依存度、科技依存度、资源依存度、金融依存度和税收依存度等7个方面分析了FDI时我国经济安全的影响,最后就如何防范FDI对我国经济安全的影响提出了几点对策建议。     

东西部地区吸引外资的竞争对地区福利效应的影响

本文利用博弈分析,说明了东西部地区吸引外资的竞争对地区福利效应的影响。东西部地区为吸引FD I到本地投资,推出各自的优惠政策,导致相互竞争,竞争的结果是地区福利的损失。为此,本文提出,各地区应建立相互协调机制,或者中央政府应制定政策,避免地区之间的竞争,使高质量外资和低质量外资分别流入到发达地区和不发达地区,这样,外资流入会带来整个地区福利最大。     

中印吸引外国直接投资 (FDI) 税收政策的比较

本文从税收政策角度考察了中印两国在吸引FDI方面的类似与不同,指出,中国除实行内外资企业所得税法的统一,还应在双重征税免除协定的签订以及产业、技术和地区引导等方面加强努力,以提供一个公平的税收环境。     

利用外资对我国制度创新的重要意义

利用外资是我国对外开放的重要组成部分。利用外资不仅弥补了我国资金短缺，引进了先进的技术、管理经验和中高端人才，更重要的是对新时期制度创新产生了全方位的推动作用：一是改革开放初期利用外资相关法律法规的制定和实施成为推动市场化改革的萌芽；二是逐步树立了按国际惯例办事的意识，自发地形成了现代市场经济的意识；三是改善我国投资环境的努力，促进了经济体制改革的启动和深化，包括价格改革、财税改革、投资改革、金融外汇改革、内外贸流通改革等；四是推动了我国的所有制和产权制度改革，引入了股份合作等新的公有制实现形式；五是推动了企业制度创新；六是推动了收入分配体制改革：七是推动了政府职能转变。     

吸引FDI的竞争：是否零和博弈——一个初步的研究

本文对吸引FDI的竞争，以及这种竞争对FDI的区选择在多大程度上产生影响，国家间的FDI促进是否是零和博弈，吸引FDI的国际竞争会带来什么影响等问题做了认真分析。某些类的FDI不会因各国的竞争而轻易改变区位。在效率导向型FDI中，会发生零和博弈。政府在对FDI促进中使用激励措施时，应该精心地选定对象，将目标集中于本国确实与其他国家竞争的制造业。     

FDI,Export Sophistication,and Quality Upgrading: Evidence from China's WTO Accession

This paper identifies a positive effect of FDI liberalization on manufacturing export sophistication, exploiting China’s adjustment of its Catalogue for the Guidance of Foreign Investment Industries upon its accession to WTO. It further investigates the underlying causes in the lines of firm ownership type, trade mode, product type, and intensive vs. extensive margins. The positive effect comes from, e.g., the increase in the export share of foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) and firms with processing trade, and the increase in the export sophistication of privately-owned enterprises (POEs), of ordinary trade, and of intermediate goods. The intensive margin rather than extensive margin is accountable for the effect. Liberalizing FDI does not seem to have any significant effect on product quality.     

技术进步学习机制与中国引进外资政策的导向

本文从"干中学"效应分析入手,研究了发展中国家技术进步学习机制。也就是要研究发展中国家通过学习型的投入及其相关的方式促进技术进步的作用机制。本文得出的结论是:这种技术进步的方式有其临界点,在临界点附近后发优势和后发劣势可以相互转化,并且技术的学习效率是递减的,最终会停止。这时发展中国家只有自主研发才能保证技术的持续进步。     

FDI,Education, and Economic Growth: Quality Matters

In this paper, we revisit the results from the influential study by Borensztein et al. (Journal of International Economics 45:115–135, 1998), which argues that inward foreign direct investment (FDI) promotes the economic growth in a less developed host country only when the host country obtains a threshold level of secondary schooling. Borensztein et al. (Journal of International Economics 45:115–135, 1998) only focus on the quantity of education. We take into consideration both the quantity and the quality of education. We adjust the original schooling data in Borensztein et al. (Journal of International Economics 45:115–135, 1998) by two quality of education indices and re-estimate their model. We find that the complementarity between inward FDI and schooling still exists, but the threshold level of schooling in our study is lower than the threshold calculated in Borensztein et al. (Journal of International Economics 45:115–135, 1998). Our results support the importance of education quality and suggest that with improved quality of education, it does not take as much quantity of schooling, as established in Borensztein et al. (Journal of International Economics 45:115–135, 1998), for inward FDI to have a positive impact on economic growth in the host country.     

外国直接投资与旅游业:来自中国的证据

本文将Zaptata和Rambaldi(1997)提出的方法应用于中国的季度数据,以便检验中国的外国直接投资(FDI)和旅游业之间的因果关系。实证结果表明,由FDI到旅游存在着单向因果关系。这一发现有助于解释过去的十几年中中国旅游市场的快速发展。     

西部地区运用财税政策吸引FDI的效果实证分析

1990年代中后期中央陆续给予了西部一系列优惠政策,但从西部地区吸引FD I的总量和质量现状来看,都远远低于全国水平。本文对西部地区财税政策吸引FD I的效果进行了分析,得出外商投资者对于具体的财税政策的敏感程度,并提出了吸引FD I的相应对策。     

Confucius Institutes and FDI flows from China to Africa

Is the establishment of new Confucius Institutes (CIs) in African countries motivated by resource seeking? We focus on uncovering new empirical evidence about the establishment of CIs, whether they are related to natural resources, and the extent to which the establishment of new CIs and Chinese foreign aid flows affect one another. Whereas Chinese aid flows do indeed appear to be empirically associated with African countries' natural resources, the evidence we report suggests that CIs are established based on a distinct set of motives. We find that CIs, Chinese foreign aid flows to Africa and natural resources have joint predictive power on the subsequent year's Chinese FDI outflows. CIs are not, however, positively associated with the subsequent year's aid flows. And aid flows are not positively associated with the subsequent year's expected number of CIs. We interpret this as evidence that CIs reflect an economically significant expression of Chinese soft power. The goals underlying the expression of this soft power are not subsumed by natural resource seeking and are not easily compressed to a single dimension. The data show that CIs and aid flows are not positive predictors of each other and are not subsumed (i.e., made to disappear) by the inclusion of controls for natural resources. Thus, the presence of a CI reveals independent, novel, and economically significant information about future trade flows that cannot be explained away by differences in resources or other control variables commonly found in empirical models of trade flows. The empirical evidence suggests that CIs are indeed an effective instrument for increasing China's soft power but that this soft power is not motivated solely (if at all) by resource seeking.     

Political regime and FDI from advanced to emerging countries

We investigate the effect of the political regime on bilateral FDI flows from advanced to emerging countries in the period 1992–2004. We control for country size, per capita income and privatization proceeds in the host country, and use a random-effect Tobit model to exploit information from zero entries. Our results suggest that democracy does have a positive effect on the amount and probability of FDI flows from developed to emerging countries. Moreover, we find that the effect of democracy on FDI also works through the total factor productivity channel, not only the political risk one as suggested in the literature.