Since the introduction of its "open door" policy in the late 1970s, China has been attracting a growing share of FDI … Trade- and FDI-led growth in a dynamic error correction modelling framework. Our results indicate that, in the long …-run relationship, regional labour productivity is indeed driven by direct and indirect spatial effects if FDI and trade activity next …

China's programme for inter-regional economic connectivity, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), will develop new trade … the shift of the US rhetoric since 2017, characterising China as a strategic competitor. Conventional geopolitical … benefits to China and costs to others, yet there is a significant research gap in empirical case studies of what is actually …

Using the data covering the time period from 1996 till 2011, I estimate a spatial autoregressive model of wages' growth … rates across Russian cities. I find that wages in Russian cities exhibit convergence. I also test whether city population … wages, but diverge in size. …

workers and therefore to higher wages, or so the often cited rent-sharing theory of multinational firms explains. But studies … positively related to wages and are more prevalent in foreign than in domestically owned firms (for example size, capital … relationship between ownership and wages for the population of Slovenian joint stock companies, while accounting for "spatial …

This paper examines patterns of FDI inflows to Southern European (SE) regions, which seem to be at the margin of the … FDI attraction game accounting for a very small share of total inward FDI in the EU. In order to understand why these … picture of the main characteristics of patterns of inward FDI in SE regions at geographical and sectoral level; ii) the …

The recent growth in foreign direct investment (FDI) has led to a proliferation of scholarly efforts to analyse the … economic effects of FDI inflows in the economy of the host countries, whereas the second studies the economic factors …/conditions in the host countries that pull in FDI flows. The purpose of this paper is to add to this latter dimension of the …

eastern China, our empirical results from both parametric and nonparametric approaches provide strong evidence of spatial …

German regional data (NUTS 1 level) for GDP, trade, and FDI activity during the period 1976-2005. Applying various … of positive and negative effects of trade/FDI on output activity for a system of interconnected regions. … equation, the empirical results support the hypothesis of export- and FDI-led growth. We also show that for export and outward …