Received:
2018-09-10 | Accepted:
2018-12-15 | Published:
2019-03-30
Title
Study on the spatial distribution of China's Outward Foreign Direct Investment in EU and its influencing factors
Abstract
Since 2000s China's outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) in developed economies has grown rapidly, boosting the technological advancement of Chinese companies and the advancement of global value chains. In the context of the United States continuing to impose investment restrictions on China, the EU has an important position in the OFDI pattern in China. Although China's OFDI in the EU has maintained rapid growth overall, the location distribution is not balanced. This paper uses spatial measurement method to test China's spatial pattern change of OFDI in EU member states and finds that there are spatial agglomeration effects and spatial spillover effects. The spatial panel analysis method is used to test the factors affecting the spatial distribution China's OFDI in EU. It is found that the market size, technology level and investment freedom of the host country have positive effects on the location selection of China's OFDI in EU.
Keywords
Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI), spatial distribution, influencing factors
JEL classifications
F21
, F22
URI
http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/285
DOI
Pages
1280-1296
Funding
This research was supported by the project, which has received funding from The Chinese Ministry of education of Humanities and Social Science project(Grant No.17YJC790077)
The paper is the output of an international scientific project IGA no. 2/2018 - M „Problems and Suggestions - Comparison of Commercial Enviroment between China - Slovakia and Facilitation of Trade and Investment”. (Funder: VSEMvs IGA VSEMvs, i.e. School of Economics and Management in Public Administration)
This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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