Since 21st century, China’s outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) has entered into a stage of fast development. The flow of China’s OFDI kept an increasing momentum and created new records continually even under the circumstances of more complicated external environment and slowdown pace of global economic recovery. As the rapid development of foreign direct investment (FDI), there still exi...

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Foreign entry and bank competition are modeled as the interaction between asymmetrically informed principals: the entrant uses collateral as a screening device to contest the incumbent’s informational advantage. Both ex ante better information and ex post stronger legal protection are shown to facilitate the entry of low-cost outside competitors into credit markets. The entrant’s success in gai...

The increasing speed of globalisation has created both opportunities and challenges to many transitional economies. This paper analyses the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the productivity of the State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) and concludes that SOE reform is inevitable. The SOEs’ obligations to provide social welfare should be removed to enable them to compete on an equal footing ...

This study contributes to the debate on whether China’s domestic enterprises (DEs) have experienced a significant catch-up compared with foreign-funded enterprises (FFEs) in high-tech industries. Our paper tries to estimate a new set of capital stock and R&D capital stock by ownership for China’s high-tech industries. Then, using this newly constructed data set, it assesses the comparative prod...

In this paper we assess the impact of foreign MNEs on China’s rapidly rising export sophistication during 1998-2005. We use a measure of export sophistication newly developed in the literature, and distinguish MNEs between wholly foreign owned enterprises (WFOEs) and joint ventures (JVs), and between MNEs from OECD and from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan (HMT). We test several hypotheses based on ...

currently, one of the most important challenges to smes is financing as their managers are faced with many problems in this area. in this study the barriers to smes financing were identified by using q methodology which is a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. after literature review and conduct of interviews with 12 executive managers of smes, 64 barriers were identified to th...

Supporting production and consumption of domestic goods is always a top priority in our country's economic and trade policy and a common approach in this regard, political and legal support and encourage the consumption of domestic goods by utilizing and stimulate patriotic feelings and pushing these feelings to use domestic goods and establish business of entrepreneurs. On this basis, the main...