This paper identifies the main contributors to the remarkable five-fold improvement of eco-efficiency (output per pollution emission) in China's manufacturing during the period 1995-2006. We are especially interested in the role of FDI in this improvement. We refine the conventional index...

I study the effects of technology spillovers (“catch-up”) and a firm's investment in skills (training) on the firm's productivity when FDI (foreign direct investment) is a carrier of new technology. Using 1992 firm-level survey data in China, I test the investment equation proposed by...

I study the effects of technology spillovers ("catch-up") and a firm's investment in skills(training) on the firm's productivity when FDI (foreign direct investment) is a carrier of new technology. Using 1992 firm-level survey data in China, I test the investment equation proposed by Parente and...