provincial total factor productivity growth over 1984-2010. We observe that provinces that caught up relatively to national TFP … in Gourinchas and Jeanne (2013) to compute regional investment and saving wedges. By relating those frictions with TFP … catch-up parameters, we find an investment and a saving puzzle: regions that caught up relative to the rest of China seem to …

We assess the role of capital goods imports and inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) as transmission channels … source countries in terms of total factor productivity (TFP). We find that the importance of these transmission mechanisms … depends on the BRICs’ local capacity to absorb superior technologies and on domestic investment. …

international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries along “One Belt and One Road”. We selected seven … (IFS) (a database developed by the International Monetary Fund), and World Development Indicators (WDI) (a database … developed by the World Bank). We applied Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (GARCH) (1,1) and threshold …

It is clear that China has emerged as a key investment actor in the current global milieu. What is not so clear is why … this is so. This paper adds an historical perspective to the state capital story by examining China's trade and investment … patterns through a longitudinal lens. The paper outlines the emergence of China as a modern global investment force and …

In this paper, we study the impacts of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) between the EU countries and China on EU … low productivity, as relative to the global industry averages. Among the exposed industries with a high pre …-treaty fraction of Chinese production, the high-productivity ones tend to increase their relative labor-productivity growth and value …

.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, Hearing on “U.S. Investment in China’s Capital Markets and Military-Industrial Complex …

On 15 August 2009, the Agreement on Investment of the Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Economic Cooperation between … China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations was signed in Bangkok, Thailand. The Investment Agreement is the last …, the paper compares the new agreement with other international investment agreements concluded by China or ASEAN. In …

foreign direct investment. In particular, it catalogues the main social and cognitive mechanisms through which various well …-organized interest groups can exploit public fear of foreign direct investment from China. By closely studying two cases — the U … scrutiny of Chinese state-owned enterprises' acquisitions in Europe — this article shows how fear of Chinese investment can …