Policy and Misallocation Evidence from Chinese Firm-Level Data

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Maria Herrera ◽  
Guowen Chen ◽  
Steven Lugauer
2020 ◽  
Vol 260 ◽  
pp. 110123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yijun Zhang ◽  
Xiaoping Li ◽  
Feitao Jiang ◽  
Yi Song ◽  
Ming Xu

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2339
Author(s):  
Yuegang Song ◽  
Feng Hao ◽  
Xiazhen Hao ◽  
Giray Gozgor

This paper uses Chinese firm-level data to investigate the effect of China’s outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) on green total factor productivity (GTFP) under economic policy uncertainties (EPU). We found a significant positive impact of OFDI on GTFP. Moreover, an increase in EPU was shown to decrease GTFP. We also found that OFDI positively contributes to GTFP for private firms and foreign-invested firms in China. Technology-seeking OFDI contributes greater to GTFP than resource-seeking OFDI and market-seeking OFDI. These results remain robust when considering OFDI from firms in Central and East China as well as Western China. The findings are also robust with green labor productivity (GLP) substituting for GTFP using different econometric techniques. We also discuss potential implications in enhancing green innovation performance and sustainable industrial development in China.


2019 ◽  
Vol 129 (624) ◽  
pp. 3025-3057 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng Chen ◽  
Wei Tian ◽  
Miaojie Yu

Abstract We examine how domestic distortions affect firms’ production strategies abroad by documenting two puzzling findings using Chinese firm-level data of manufacturing firms. First, private multinational corporations (MNCs) are less productive than state-owned MNCs, but they are more productive than state-owned enterprises overall. Second, there are disproportionately fewer state-owned MNCs than private MNCs. We build a model to rationalise these findings by showing that discrimination against private firms domestically incentivises them to produce abroad. The model shows that selection reversal is more pronounced in industries with more severe discrimination against private firms, which receives empirical support.


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