人民币实际汇率与外商直接投资的实证分析

本文通过运用协整分析和格兰杰因果关系检验方法对1980-2004年间的外商直接投资与人民币汇率的关系进行了研究,文章认为外商直接投资的增加会导致人民币汇率的升值,其研究结果表明:人民币汇率与外商直接投资之间存在着长期的均衡关系,而且外商直接投资是人民币汇率的格兰杰原因。     

中部崛起需要大力吸收外国直接投资

3月27日,中共中央政治局召开会议研究促进中部崛起工作,这说明了改变中部六省当前经济发展的落后局面已到了刻不容缓的地步。此前,中部地区面临着东部高速发展、西部提速发展、东北强力振兴、“中部凹陷”的巨大现实压力。导致中部地区经济发展水平落后的原因很多,而中部地区在吸引外国直接投资(简称FDI)方面的落后是一个主要因素。中部地区要崛起,必须大力吸引外国直接投资。     

Human capital,FTAs and foreign direct investment flows into ASEAN

In this paper, we examine the impact of foreign direct investment flows into ASEAN in a gravity model using the bilateral FDI data from 2000 to 2009. In particular, we study the key factors that determine the FDI flows into the region including human capital development and whether membership of a bilateral or regional trade agreement has a differential impact on FDI flows using an extended gravity model. The empirical results indicate that free trade agreements do have positive impact on FDI inflows. However, the returns on FDI inflows depend on the domestic absorptive capacity of the economy and region. It is imperative for ASEAN to align its infrastructure, human capital and technologies to provide MNCs with the necessary linkages to the global network and also to move the domestic industries seamlessly up the global production value-chain. The paper highlights that this is crucial for deeper ASEAN integration and for sustainable growth in the region.     

我国农业外商直接投资结构变动分析

自加入世贸以来,涉农跨国公司在我国农业领域内的投资迅速增加。本文以详实的数据实证分析了农业FDI投资结构,研究结果表明:农业FDI结构已发生很大变化,农业FDI以独资为主,空间结构呈现东多西少,投资来源地表现出多元化趋势,农业FDI投资产业结构表现为畜牧和渔业投资比重不断上升,种植业投资比重不断下降。     

外国直接投资与中国经济增长的实证分析

本文简要介绍了外国直接投资与东道国经济增长的相关理论,并对外国直接投资(FDI)与中国经济增长之间数据关系进行了分析,进而利用协整检验技术,验证外国直接投资与中国经济增长之间是否具有长期的稳定关系。最后给出研究结论和启示。     

反倾销引致对外直接投资及其根源探析

反倾销调查具有很强的行业针对性特征,基于此,为规避反倾销调查,相关企业直接在发起反倾销调查的国家里,用直接投资的方式来代替或补偿反倾销调查给本企业带来的损失。本文由此从多角度探讨了反倾销引致企业对外直接投资的理论、实践以及这一行为产生的根源。     

Agglomeration and location of foreign direct investment: The case of China

This paper investigates the effect of agglomeration on foreign direct investment (FDI) location in China. We use different measures of agglomeration, and test both within and across region agglomeration effect. The results suggest that urbanization, foreign-specific agglomeration and industry diversity have positive impact on FDI location. Urbanization, foreign-specific agglomeration and industry specialization, also significantly promote industrial FDI. The results also suggest there exist both within and across region agglomeration effects. Other factors including market size, wage, education, road density, government policy and trade cost also have significant impacts on FDI location.     

对我国对外直接投资区位选择的思考

本文认为我国对外直接投资的区位选择不能过于集中,目前的对策是重点投资东南亚地区,开展对发达国家周边发展中国家和资源丰富国家的投资,鼓励中小企业投资发展中国家,有针对地投资发达国家。     

长三角地区吸引外国直接投资的引资竞争分析

文章对中国吸引外商直接投资(FD I)的典型地区—长三角的引资竞争进行分析。首先,利用长三角地区FD I流入的相关数据,深入分析了该地区引资竞争概况,指出从吸引外资总额与实际利用外资额上看,长三角地区自改革开发以来到20世纪90年代一直保持了良好的增长势头,但在2004年由于各种原因出现了普遍的下降。从外商投资方式来看,外商独资经营方式己在长三角地区占据主导地位,合资经营与合作经营方式己逐渐退居二线。随后,本文对长三角外商直接投资区位变迁从引资竞争上进行了理论上的分析,认为这种竞争会带来两种效应———积极效应与消极效应。针对过度引资竞争所导致的问题给出了两点政策建议:a.引资竞争措施应从单纯政策优惠转向投资环境竞争力提升;b.引资竞争要发挥比较优势,实现优势互补、走向竞合。     

外商直接投资对东道国环境倾销问题的分析

本文通过分析FDI产生的原因,结合现有倾销定义,提出了一种基于生产过程的环境倾销定义。并以造纸公司为例,通过对比投资国公司与FDI公司环境成本的投入,探讨FDI是否产生环境倾销问题。研究发现该FDI公司环境成本投入要高于其在投资国的环境成本投入,没有构成环境倾销。     

我国引进外商直接投资中环境污染的原因及对策分析

自1979年开始,我国的外商直接投资规模年年攀升,外商直接投资为我国的经济增长做出了极大贡献,但同时也给我国带来了严重的环境污染问题。本文对此问题的现状和原因进行分析,提出了协调外资和环境的对策。     

外商直接投资对我国国际收支经常项目的影响研究

与资本项目相比,FDI对国际收支经常项目的影响更为曲折和复杂。本文在分析了FDI对我国国际收支经常项目影响途径的基础上,采用1983—2010年的年度数据,对FDI与我国经常项目差额进行实证分析。结果显示,FDI与我国国际收支经常项目差额之间存在正相关关系,对经常项目差额影响显著,是经常项目差额扩大的重要原因。     

Spillovers from foreign direct investment in services: Evidence at sub-sectoral level for the Asia-Pacific

We take a sectoral level approach to analyzing the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. We disaggregate FDI first by manufacturing versus services, then within services by financial services, trade services, and business services. We consider the effects of FDI inflows on growth of GDP per capita, then distinguish between growth in manufacturing and services value added per capita. Our data sample comprises 14 Asia Pacific economies for the period 1985–2012 to which we apply a dynamic panel generalized method of moments estimation technique. Services FDI as a whole is found to have a significantly positive impact on GDP growth while manufacturing FDI is found to have no effect. The impetus for growth from services FDI traces to financial services in particular, acting not only directly on service sector output but through manufacturing sector output as well. By contrast, trade services FDI is found to have a significantly negative effect on manufacturing output with no significant effect on services output. Foreign participation in trade services may act to expose domestic manufacturers to international competition and may also lead to domestic consolidation to take advantage of economies of scale.     

Monetary policy shocks and exchange rates in Asian countries

In this paper, we empirically investigate the effects of monetary policy shocks on exchange rates in Asian countries. To do so, we use VAR models which impose sign restrictions on impulse responses to identify monetary policy shocks. We find that contractionary monetary policy shocks lead to significant exchange rate appreciation in Malaysia, the People’s Republic of China, and the Republic of Korea. However, in India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, we find either a significant depreciation or no significant effect. These results suggest that an interest rate increase (or decrease) may not necessarily shield Asian countries from exchange rate depreciation (or appreciation) pressure following a U.S. interest rate increase (or decrease).     

利用外国直接投资发展滨海新区服务业的思考

本文分析了外商直接投资对滨海新区制造业和服务业产业结构的影响后,提出了充分利用自身优势,有选择地利用外资发展滨海新区服务业的建议:充分发挥区位优势,发展物流业;利用制造业集聚优势,发展生产性服务业,利用政策优势,发展金融业和服务外包。     

Efficiency spillovers from foreign direct investment in the EU periphery: A comparative study of Greece,Ireland, and Spain

Despite a growing number of empirical studies on efficiency spillovers arising from the presence of multinational firms for a number of countries, general conclusions on this issue have been inhibited by differences in the data sets and estimation techniques used across studies. In this paper we conduct a comparative empirical study for Greece, Ireland and Spain by creating comparable data sets and estimating identical models. Our results show evidence of spillovers in Ireland and Spain only, although these positive spillovers seem to depend on whether firms have the absorptive capacity to capture technological spillovers and the criteria used to classify them as foreign affiliates. JEL no. F23, O30     

中部地区利用外商直接投资的SWOT分析及战略思考

中部地区在利用外商直接投资的水平、规模等方面远远落后于东部地区。本文针对中部地区利用外商直接投资的现状,以SWOT分析为基础,从中部地区利用外商直接投资的内部条件和外部环境两方面进行了系统分析,提出了中部地区扩大利用外商直接投资应选择的相关战略。     

Emission reduction and foreign direct investment nexus in China

This paper employs a difference-in-difference-in-difference approach to examine the emission reduction and foreign direct investment nexus in China. It combines a firm-level dataset with emission reduction target statistics at city-level. The findings indicate that stringent environmental regulation is associated with the fall of the output of foreign firms in general and the shrinking of pollution-intensive industries in cities with heavy emission reduction pressure in particular. It is also shown that the location choice of foreign investment changes as emission reduction targets at city-level vary. Finally it is found that environmental regulation helps improve the structure of foreign direct investment and hence contributes to industrial upgrading in the economy.     

Intellectual property rights and foreign direct investment: A disaggregated analysis

This paper aims at overcoming several shortcomings of previous empirical studies on the relationship between IPR protection and FDI. First of all, we use sectorally disaggregated FDI data for a large sample of host countries. Second, we address the proposition that stronger IPR protection raises not only the quantity but also the quality of FDI. Third, we check to which extent the relationship between IPR protection and FDI is affected by applying alternative measures of IPR protection. Our empirical findings support the hypothesis that the threat of an unauthorized use of intellectual-property-related assets and, thus, FDI depends on industry as well as host-country characteristics. Furthermore, stronger IPR protection may help induce high-quality FDI. JEL no. F21, F23     

Intellectual property rights and foreign direct investment: A disaggregated analysis

This paper aims at overcoming several shortcomings of previous empirical studies on the relationship between IPR protection and FDI. First of all, we use sectorally disaggregated FDI data for a large sample of host countries. Second, we address the proposition that stronger IPR protection raises not only the quantity but also the quality of FDI. Third, we check to which extent the relationship between IPR protection and FDI is affected by applying alternative measures of IPR protection. Our empirical findings support the hypothesis that the threat of an unauthorized use of intellectual-property-related assets and, thus, FDI depends on industry as well as host-country characteristics. Furthermore, stronger IPR protection may help induce high-quality FDI. JEL no. F21, F23