Purpose – Amid the rising concerns about the unbalanced globalization, there has been a renewed interest in examining the pattern of international trade and investment, especially between emerging and mature economies. In this study, the purpose of this paper is to examine the role of...

Under "The Belt and Road" initiative, the DDD method is used to study the impact of bilateral trade matching bias on China's OFDI target country selection and its mechanism. The research shows that under the " The Belt and Road " initiative, trade openness makes China's OFDI more inclined to...