What are the determinants of the location of foreign direct investment? The Chinese experience

By Leonard K. Cheng, Yum K. Kwan. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Global Foreign Direct Investment Flows: The Role of Governance Infrastructure (2002, background): “See, for example, Cheng and Kwan (2000); Kumar (1996); Loree and Guisinger (1995); Mody and Sriniva- san (1998); Wheeler and Mody (1992); Zhao and Zhu (2000).”
Regional industrial growth: evidence from Chinese industries (2004, methodology): “We first experiment with a policy index based on the number of SEZs, open coastal cities, and development zones in each province in 1985, similar to Cheng and Kwan (2000).”
Institutions and inflows of foreign direct investment: a fuzzy-set analysis (2008, background): “Traditionally, factors such as market potential and size, relative labour unit costs, exchange rate, and relative endowments have been seen as important determinants for the location decisions and investment activity of MNEs (Caves, 1974; Cheng & Kwan, 2000; Dunning, 1980; Grosse & Trevino, 1996).”
Globalization and location choice: an analysis of US multinational firms in 1980 and 2000 (2007, methodology): “For instance, Cheng and Kwan (2000) used three indicators: the ratio of total km of roads to the country's area expressed in km; 2 a similar indicator that considered only high-grade paved roads and the ratio of the total km of railway over the country's area, expressed in km”
Economic institutions and FDI location choice: Evidence from US multinationals in China (2008, background): “Head and Ries (1996), Cheng and Kwan (2000), He (2002), Chang and Park (2005), and Amiti and Javorcki (2007) focus on the e¤ects of agglomeration in FDI location choice in China.”
The 45 years of foreign direct investment research: Approaches, advances and analytical areas (2017, neutral): “(1998), Nabendem and Ford (1998), Mello (1997; 1999), Thomas and Grosse (2001), Liu, Wang and Wei (2001), Liu et al. (2002), Chakraborty and Basu (2002), Chung, Mitchell and Yeung (2003), Trevino and Mixon (2004), Gao (2005), Globerman and Shapiro (2006), Baharumshah and Thanoon (2006), Salavrakos (”
The Location Choice of Foreign Direct Investments: Empirical Evidence and Methodological Challenges (2017, background): “…Boudier-Bensebaa (2005), Carstensen and Toubal (2004), Casper and Whitley (2004), Cassidy and AndreossoO’Callaghan (2006), Chan et al. (2006), Cheng and Kwan (2000), Cheng (2006), Cheng and Stough (2006), Cheng (2008a), Cheng (2008b), Child and Tsai (2005), Cieslik (2005a), Cieslik (2005b),…”
Why Does FDI Go Where it Goes? New Evidence from the Transition Economies (2003, neutral): “A recent work by Chen and Kwang (2000) report a similar effect of agglomeration observed in China.”
30 Years of foreign direct investment to China: An interdisciplinary literature review (2010, background): “…and Segev, 2000 [114]), levels of education (e.g., Broadman and Sun, 1997 [58]; Fung et al., 2002 [178]; Zhang, 2001 [142]), wage costs (e.g., Cheng and Kwan, 2000; Coughlin and Segev, 2000), the institutional environment and support in a Chinese province (e.g., Zhang, 2001), and the coastal…”
Foreign direct investment and environmental pollution in China: a simultaneous equations estimation* (2010, methodology): “To deal with the endogeneity problem of FDI, we follow other studies such as Cheng and Kwan (2000), Sun et al.”