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Economic growth, local industrial development and inter-regiona: evidence from China / Ouyang, Puman; Fu, Shihe

Fu, Shihe	Journal Article
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2012.

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In many countries inward foreign direct investment (FDI) typically concentrates in a few regions. However, there is little empirical evidence on whether spatially concentrated FDI boosts economic growth in other regions within the same country. We use a dataset that covers 96% of Chinese cities from 1996 to 2004 and find that "inter-regional spillovers" from FDI concentrated in China's coastal cities have a positive and significant effect on the growth of inland cities. In addition, an inland city's industrial development affects its absorptive capacity to gain such inter-regional spillovers from coastal FDI.

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Foreign Direct Investment ; Growth ; Regional Inequality ; Absorptive Capacity ; Inter - Regional Spillovers

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Market potential, firm exports and profit: which market do the Chinese firms profit from? / Ouyang, Puman; Zhang, Teng ; Dong, Yan

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This paper examines the effects of market potential on Chinese firms' exports and profit by using data from the Chinese industrial enterprise database and The China City Statistical Yearbooks during 1998–2007. We find that international market potential has positive effects on firm exports, but negative effects on firm profit, while domestic market potential has opposite impacts. This finding suggests that Chinese firms' profit mainly stems from the domestic market. Moreover, the adverse impact of international market potential on firm profit diminishes with the increase of firm productivity, and some firms with higher productivity may benefit from the expansion of foreign markets.

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Firm Productivity ; International Market Potential ; Domestic Market Potential ; Profit Source

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