The effect of outward investment to China on domestic R&D: a two-hurdle model with endogenous ODI |
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| Authors: | Hui-Lin Lin Ryh-song Yeh Ching-Fan Chung |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Economics , National Taiwan University , Taipei, Taiwan huilin@ntu.edu.tw;3. Department of International Business , Asia University, Taichung , Taiwan;4. The Institute of Economics , Academia Sinica , Taipei, Taiwan |
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| Abstract: | Outward direct investment (ODI) and domestic R&D are interrelated, but empirical evidence is affected by the nature of a firm's data, which are heavily censored. Firm data contain a firm's yes/no decision to invest in China, yes/no decision of R&D, and the decision of R&D intensity. We thus adopt a two-hurdle model and allow the China investment decision to be endogenous in an R&D model in order to examine the effect of ODI in China on domestic R&D investment in Taiwan's electronics industry. In the model, a two-equation simultaneous subsystem is formed, in which three regression equations are specified: a decision of R&D intensity, and a yes/no decision of location to conduct R&D together with a yes/no decision to invest in China Our results indicate that China investment and R&D intensity are positively related such that ODI in China helps to raise significantly a firm's R&D intensity as compared to the estimate if the endogeneity of China investment and the nature of data were not properly accounted. |
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