Baiardi, Donatella; Gattai, Valeria; Natale, Piergiovanna - 2021
This study investigates the relationship between outward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and the performance of Chinese … enterprises. Using firm-level panel data over the period 2008–2014, we introduce a taxonomy of outward FDI that accounts for the … differences in performance between FDI starters and non-starters two years before and two years after the first investment by the …