Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Economic and Business Management (FEBM 2019)

Does WTO Membership Has Effects on the Trade Linkages of Inward and Outward FDI: Evidence from China

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William Sheng Liu
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William Sheng Liu
Available Online December 2019.
DOI
10.2991/febm-19.2019.14How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Foreign direct investment; foreign trade; China; WTO
Abstract

The study contributes to the FDI-trade literature by making a first attempt at assessing the dynamics of FDI and WTO membership linkages with trade in China. Utilizing a country-level panel trade data spanning the period 2003 to 2016, we found that both FDI inflows and outflows have been trade-enhancing. Results also indicate that China’s accession to WTO would change FDI-trade relationships. We argue that as China trades with a non–WTO member country, outward FDI does have a significant positive impact on China’s exports and imports.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Economic and Business Management (FEBM 2019)
Series
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date
December 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-849-9
ISSN
2352-5428
DOI
10.2991/febm-19.2019.14How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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