This study employs the gravity model to estimate the extent of the contribution of six African trade blocs to the global economy using the gravity model spanning from 1980 to 2018. The gravity equation that models the export contributions of the six selected African RECs to the global export is...

In this introduction to the themed issue "Diaspora Direct Investment," we firstly provide a review of the relevant extant literature followed by a discussion on determinants and policy implications. Next, we summarize the six papers included in this special issue. The topics that are touched...

This paper uses the China Foreign Investment Country-Oriented Industry Catalog as a policy shock to study the effectiveness and externality effect of China's OFDI incentive policy through the RD and PSM-DID model correspondingly. The results show that OFDI encouragement policy can effectively...