Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science) ›› 2017, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (6): 571-580.DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2017.06.004

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Trade Liberalization and Location Choice of FDI——Evidence from the Countries Along “One Belt and One Road”

WU Xin-sheng, LIANG Qi   

  1. (Business School, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China)
  • Received:2017-02-10 Revised:2017-02-10 Online:2017-11-25 Published:2017-12-01
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Abstract: An empirical analysis was given by adopting the spatial panel data of 2005-2013 in 39 countries along “One Belt and One Road”. It was found that there exist the third-country effects characterized by spatial agglomeration. The regional economic integration represented by the EU and China-ASEAN free trade areas promotes trade liberalization and produces varied investment transfer effects. Market size has a significant positive effect on the location choice of FDI, and there is home market effect as well. FDI tends to flow to the country with a large market scale, high degree of openness, excellent infrastructure, political stability and better legal environment, and FDI itself has a significant dynamic characteristics. FDI's location choice displays resource-seeking motivation, but the purpose of reducing production costs does not exist. The promotion of human capital level to FDI absorption is not obvious, and there is a time lag. Countries with rich resources and capital have a crowding out effect of FDI. The location choice model of FDI and its influential factors are quite different among countries and regions.

Key words: “One Belt and One Road” strategy, free trade agreement, institutional environment, FDI's location choice

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