Abstract:Foreign direct investment (FDI) is essential to world economic growth, global industrial chain optimization, technology diffusion, and product innovation. This study identifies several macro-level factors affecting FDI inflow to China after discussing possible mechanisms through which COVID-19 influences FDI. Then, it tests three different stressful scenarios simulating the COVID-19 influence on China’s FDI inflow with a regression model estimated by extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) in Python. Results show … Show more
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