The knowledge spillover effects of FDI on the productivity and efficiency of research activities in China

Lin, Zhang

doi:10.1016/j.chieco.2016.11.001

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“…en, infrastructure level, industrial structure, marketization level, and opening degree are chosen to construct comprehensive index to measure the regulation foundation. Moreover, studies have shown that technology research and development strength, domestic capital stock of R&D, and foreign direct investment have significantly influence on productivity [24][25][26]. Considering that the green total factor productivity may have the certain continuity, a dynamic econometric model would be adopted.…”

Section: Econometric Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nonlinear Effects of Governmental and Civil Environmental Regulation on Green Total Factor Productivity in China

Lei

2019

Advances in Meteorology

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This paper employs metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger index to measure green total factor productivity and then builds panel model to investigate the nonlinear effects of both governmental and civil environmental regulation on green total factor productivity in 30 provinces of China in 2007–2016, where the threshold variables are environmental awareness and regulatory foundation. The results show that green total factor productivity takes the characteristic of cyclical fluctuation, and the magnitude and its growth rate in the eastern region are higher than those in the midwestern region. The degrees of the governmental and civil environmental regulation and green total factor productivity display single environmental awareness threshold and regulatory foundation threshold. It should be noted that the sign of governmental and civil environmental regulation on green total factor productivity will transform from negative to positive, if and only if threshold variables ascend and surpass the threshold value. Under the condition of metafrontier technology, governmental environmental awareness threshold value, based on the investigated corruption and malpractice cases by the procuratorates among every hundred thousand people, reaches 0.2158, and civil environmental awareness threshold value based on the per capita education level will attain 12.2330 years, and the corresponding regulatory foundation index threshold values are 0.0163 and 0.0154. These findings show clear policy implications: rather than continually promoting the level of governmental environmental regulation, civil performance, environmental awareness, and regulatory foundation should be considered.

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Section: Econometric Modelmentioning

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Nonlinear Effects of Governmental and Civil Environmental Regulation on Green Total Factor Productivity in China

Lei

2019

Advances in Meteorology

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“…Branstetter (2000) examines the role that FDI played in facilitating knowledge spillovers to and from Japanese firms investing in the US. Cheung and Lin (2004) show that FDI is associated with increased patenting in China at the provincial level as does Zhang (2017).…”

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Knowledge Spillovers Within China’s System of Research Institutes

Jiang

Tortorice

Xuan³

2019

SSRN Journal

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We use a novel, fifteen-year panel dataset on China's system of research institutes to examine the determinates of knowledge production, the role external factors play in increasing research productivity, and the extent to which distance mitigates these spillovers. We find robust evidence that knowledge inputs like R&D personnel increase patenting and publication. External R&D spending in the institute's province and the institute's industry knowledge stock spill over into increased knowledge production. We find that being located on average farther from institutes engaged in similar research reduces the impact of these spillovers. These results have important policy implications as China attempts to increase economic activity away from the coast and aims to improve the productivity of its research institute sector.

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“…With this backdrop, considerable efforts have been devoted to understanding the effects of FDI on various dimensions of the Chinese economy. This string of literature has centered on the growth effect of hosting FDI (Berthélemy and Démurger 2000;Su and Liu 2016;Yalta 2013; Zhao 2012) alongside a subset focus on potential pertinent channels (Fu 2004;2008;Liu et al 2009;Zhang 2017). Recently, attention has been directed to its potential effects on institutional and environmental aspects (Chen 2017;Elliot et al 2013;Long et al 2015;Salim et al 2017a;Yang et al 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Methodologica lly, these characteristics minimize unobserved fixed effects that often plague cross-country studies on this topical issue (Salim et al 2017b). Further, the short but vibrant history of hosting FDI and its uneven regional distribution has been substantially enriched within and between variations across Chinese regions (Su and Liu 2016;Zhang 2017). It is possible to take advantage of this opening up "policy experiment" to identify the empirical relationship between FDI and DI.…”

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Crowds in or crowds out? The effect of foreign direct investment on domestic investment in Chinese cities

Yao

Salim

2018

Empir Econ

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This study investigates the empirical relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and domestic investment (DI) in China using a comprehensive city-level panel over the period from 2003 to 2011. System generalized method-of-moment estimation reveals mixed results. At the national level, FDI neither crowds in nor crowds out DI, indicating a neutral FDI-DI nexus. However, when the full sample is segmented by geographical topology, a positive and significant FDI-DI nexus can be found in eastern and, to a lesser extent, central cities. A negative, although insignificant, association is reported among western cities. Further, the empirical nexus is conditional on several local absorptive capacities including human capital, financial development, and institutional quality. These findings suggest that a region-based FDI strategy in general and local governments should strengthen their absorptive capacities to fully internalize FDI spillovers.

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The knowledge spillover effects of FDI on the productivity and efficiency of research activities in China

Cited by 71 publications

References 29 publications

Nonlinear Effects of Governmental and Civil Environmental Regulation on Green Total Factor Productivity in China

Nonlinear Effects of Governmental and Civil Environmental Regulation on Green Total Factor Productivity in China

Knowledge Spillovers Within China’s System of Research Institutes

Crowds in or crowds out? The effect of foreign direct investment on domestic investment in Chinese cities

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