This paper examines the impact of Confucius Institutes on inbound travel to China. We estimate a panel gravity model of … inbound tourism flows to China between 2004 and 2010. We use a Poisson Pseudo-maximum likelihood estimator to control for …

Using a large firm-level panel dataset from the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics, we examine the effect of … financial distortions on FDI inflows in China's labor-intensive industries. Following Whited and Wu (2006), we estimate the … political pecking order hypothesis that states that there is a severe lending bias in China's financial system against private …

We explain that China is an ‘‘attractor'' of FDI because its FDI inflows increased steadily even though theworld FDI … generally very small. The concept of the China Circle should be expanded to the East Asia Circle, which is experienced by Taiwan …, geographic proximity, and cultural similarity of these countries. To avoid spurious regressions, we use panel unit root and …

Chinese and Indian FDI are attracted to countries with large market size, low GDP growth, high volumes of imports from China … or India, and low corporate tax rates. We also find important differences between China and India. While Chinese FDI is …

As one of the important developing countries, China has experienced a tremendous amount of economic growth in the past …, according to past literature, FDI location is imbalanced in China. Building upon this finding, this paper attempts to identify … factors affecting the location determinants of FDI in China. By introducing “spatial variable” into the analysis, this paper …

auf das Niveau von IIT-Endprodukten aus, hat aber einen geringeren Einfluss auf IIT-Halbfertigwaren. China hat im Bereich …This paper adopts the Hausman-Taylor 2SLS error components approach in estimating the determinants of China's Intra … of final products IIT, but of less importance in influencing the intermediates IIT. China is exchanging intermediates in …

This study uses a theoretically justified gravity model of trade to examine the impact of the ASEAN-China Free Trade … and ACFTA can be confirmed in the case of both manufactured goods and also chemical products. -- gravity model ; panel …

This paper proposes a Bayesian estimation framework for panel-data sets with binary dependent variables where a large …

: what are the major determinants of China's regional economic integration with the Greater Mekong Sub-regional countries … bilateral trade and foreign direct investment (FDI). In accordance with the literature, the present study adopts a panel gravity … framework method to analyze the significant factors affecting the bilateral aggregate exports flows of China with five economies …

Working with a panel dataset of of OECD countries over the decade 1994-2004, we examine linkages between cross … when commercial presence increases. -- FDI ; imports ; services ; panel data ; substitution and complementary effects …