Do China's greenfield foreign direct investments promote short-term innovation output growth in host countries?

Jing Fang, Fanjie Fu, Xiaolin Yang and Shujie Yao

Economics Letters, 2025, vol. 247, issue C

Abstract: We examine the impact of China's greenfield OFDI on the short-term innovation outputs of host countries using a panel dataset covering 46 countries in 2003–21. Our findings provide evidence that challenges concerns about the threat posed by China's greenfield OFDI.

Keywords: Greenfield foreign direct investment; Patent; The belt and road initiative; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F21 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112206

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