Journal
CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW
Volume 44, Issue -, Pages 1-15Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2017.03.001
Keywords
Foreign direct investment; Chinese manufacturing; Productivity; Propensity score matching; Differences-in-differences
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- China Scholarship Council (CSC)
- CSC
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Using an original linked firm-level panel data from Chinese manufacturing firms over the period 2002-2007, this paper examines how outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) led productivity increase of parent firms (known as the own-firm effect) changes over firm heterogeneity. Conducting propensity score matching (PSM) techniques and differences-in-differences (DID) analysis, we find strong and robust evidence that the first OFDI promotes parent firm's productivity and this effect varies substantially with the firms' characteristics. In particular, firm's absorptive capacity is essential for the own-firm effect, and the absorptive capacity related with the product innovation is more important than that of the process innovation for the own firm effect. Also, OFDI strategies for obtaining advanced technology and investing in developed countries significantly strengthen the own-firm effect, whereas, government supports have no significant impacts on the own-firm effect. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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