浙江大学区域经济开放与发展研究中心系列讲座No.201959
报告题目:Foreign Direct Investment and Export Quality: Evidence from China
作者:Qing Liu, Larry D. Qiu and Chaoqun Zhan
主讲人:占超群 助理教授
主持人:周默涵 研究员
时间:2019年6月11日(星期二)下午3:00-5:00
地点:浙江大学玉泉校区经济学院432
主讲人简介
占超群,中山大学岭南学院经济系助理教授、副研究员,香港大学经济学博士,研究方向为国际贸易和组织经济学,论文发表于Pacific Economic Review, Economic and Political Studies, 和《国际贸易问题》等学术期刊。
Abstract:
In this paper, we investigate whether Foreign Direct Investment(FDI) inflows ameliorate or deteriorate export quality of indigenous domestic firms in the same industry. Relying on FDI regulation change upon China's accession into WTO that generates plausibly exogenous variations in FDI inflows across manufacturing industries, we find a significant negative spillover effect. Firms facing more FDI presence within the industry tend to export lower quality products. And the average lower quality is mainly driven by firms adding lower quality products, dropping average quality products, while keeping the quality of continuous products unchanged. Further tests show that Chinese firms in FDI-liberalized industries face more competition from FDI in both domestic and international markets. We propose a dynamic multi-product firm model to give insights to the findings.