FDI AND SPILLOVERS IN CHINA: NON-LINEARITY AND ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY

Taotao Chen (), Ari Kokko and Patrik Tingvall
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Taotao Chen : School of Economics and Management, Postal: Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China, http://www.tsinghua.edu.cn

No 2010-12, Working Paper Series from Stockholm School of Economics, China Economic Research Center

Abstract: Using a fixed effect variance decomposition model, we estimate SUR models to analyze FDI spillovers from contagion and spillovers from competition on local firms in China. While the former type of spillover mainly depends on the degree of foreign presence in the local industry, the latter kind is related to how foreign and local firms interact. The main conclusion is that FDI has been beneficial for the Chinese economy, but that spillovers are not evenly distributed across firms and industries. Spillovers from contagion tend to exhibit an inverse U-shaped pattern with respect to the degree of foreign presence at the industry level, whereas spillovers from competition exhibit a more linear pattern with respect to the level of technological sophistication in foreign firms. Industries with high absorptive capacity and/or high efficiency are the ones best equipped to take advantage of spillovers from foreign-owned firms. Moreover, there are signs of substantial competition between foreign-owned firms: an increase in the foreign capital share in an industry seems to have a stronger effect on incumbent foreign-owned firms than on domestic firms.

Keywords: Spillovers; China; FDI; Fixed effect variance decomposition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 F21 F23 O53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2010-01-01
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