This report examines China’s strategy for investing in Europe. While investing in Western Europe is primarily about … reciprocity should be introduced within the framework of an investment protection agreement between the EU and China. This could …

The economic and political rise of China has led to considerable controversy regarding potential repercussions for the … current global governance architecture. At least two opposing scenarios are conceivable: China’s adaptation to the rules and … danger of clashing regulatory policies. A recent and increasingly dynamic trend giving substance to the phenomenon of China …

's productivity when FDI (foreign direct investment) is a carrier of new technology. Using 1992 firm-level survey data in China, I …-owned firms in China are unlikely to train local workers. Instead, they import intermediate inputs from their home countries …

, EU, Japan and Korea) toward the variation in the strength of economic institutions across China's regions. It is found … that FIEs from the source countries/areas that are culturally more remote from China often exhibit a stronger aversion to …

cooperation related investment (ECI). While there are suggestions that it is an extension of China's soft power aimed at … resource richness is not economically meaningful. Finally, while there is some support for the popular wisdom that China … any, for the hypotheses that China favours doing business with countries where political rights are limited …

Current efforts to explain the implications of China’s growing economic attractiveness for development in other regions … currently being undermined by the former’s reliance on intermediate material imports from China. Then using data for the small …, Asian investors in the country’s apparel manufacturing business rely principally on China for their input supplies; two …

China’s outward investment policy has attracted attention not only for policy reasons, but also in academic debate on … regulations have been central to China’s outward investment. This paper bases itself on a detailed analysis of Chinese policy and … China and enterprise behaviour is complex, and is not simply one of restriction or promotion of outward investment …

China’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are sometimes compared to Canadian Crown corporations, such as VIA Rail or the … Canadian economic policy. China’s SOEs have been actively buying up interests in major Canadian resource firms. But that …’s Statoil. China’s SOEs do not operate by the normal rules of commerce. They are, in fact, a very powerful tool of the Chinese …

of FDI in China's income growth and market-oriented transition. We first identify possible channels through which FDI may … in the period of 1984-98, we provide an empirical assessment, which suggests that FDI seems to help China's transition …