profitability of foreign direct investments made by overseas Chinese in China. Our paper takes advantage of a large dataset-over 50 …,000 firms over a period of eight years-that is comprised of two types of foreign firms with investments in China-those owned by … China do not outperform non-ethnically Chinese firms by a set of conventional profitability measures. We also find that the …

directly test the hypothesis that FDI is a channel of knowledge spillovers for Japanese multinationals undertaking direct … investments in the United States. Using an original firm-level data set on Japanese firms' FDI and innovative activity find … evidence that FDI increases the flow of knowledge spillovers both from and to the investing Japanese firms …

: the continued decline in Japanese FDI during a period of stable stock prices and a rapidly appreciating yen. However, when … are able to show that unequal access to credit by Japanese firms can explain the FDI puzzle in the 1990s. We utilize a … unique data set that links individual Japanese firms engaged in FDI to their main banks. Using both bank-level and firm …