Identifying IFDI and OFDI Productivity Spatial Spillovers: Evidence from China

Youxing Huang and Huixin Yang

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2020, vol. 56, issue 5, 1124-1145

Abstract: Using an original and unique merged large-scale Chinese dataset over 2002–2007, this article investigates the productivity spatial spillover effects from both inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) to private-owned domestic firms based on intra- and inter-regional dimensions. Results show strong evidence that the positive outward FDI (OFDI) spillover effect dominates in inter-region, whereas no significant positive effect exists in intra-region. By contrast, no significant spatial spillover effect is observed from inward FDI (IFDI). In addition, there exists the optimum geographical distance on productivity spatial spillovers as a result of the non-linear impact of the geographical proximity. These results are robust after controlling potential endogeneity and to different specifications.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/1540496X.2018.1553161

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