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

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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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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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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AU  - William Sheng Liu
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TI  - Does WTO Membership Has Effects on the Trade Linkages of Inward and Outward FDI: Evidence from China
BT  - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Economic and Business Management (FEBM 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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