A number of existing empirical studies have attempted to estimate the foreign direct investment-related productivity spillover effects to domestic firms in host economies using various methodologies and measures of FDI. This literature has produced mixed results. While some studies found...

This study employs spatial econometric techniques to examine the heterogeneous effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on industrialization across China's four major regions - East, Central, West, and Northeast - using panel data from 31 provinces (1998-2016). Our findings reveal significant...