【论坛题目】外商直接投资是否能提高国内企业的生产率： 基于中国方言区边界的地理断点回归分析
Can Foreign Direct Investment Increase Productivity of Domestic Firms? A new strategy to Identify FDI spillovers from borders of Chinese dialect zones
Abstract:
Most developing countries adopt policies to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), hoping that multinational firms can bring knowledge spillovers and raise productivity of domestic firms. This study identifies positive productivity spillovers from FDI, employing discontinuous increase in investment from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan (HMT) to mainland China at geographical borders of Chinese dialect zones. Using spatial regression discontinuity design, I find that HMT investment to a location right inside the region that speaks the same dialect as HMT is 5 to 7 percentage points (20 percent) higher than a location right outside. Using this discontinuous increase at the dialect borders due to cultural similarity as exogenous variations, I find positive horizontal productivity spillovers to domestic firms. A 1 percentage point increase in the share of HMT firms raises productivity of domestic firms in the same location and industry by around 3 to 4 percent.
【主讲人】马森
【主持人】陈仪
【论坛时间】2017年10月20日（周五）14:00—16:00
【论坛地点】北京大学经济学院大楼302会议室
【主讲人介绍】
学历：
博士：美国伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校, 经济学系 2012-
经济学博士候选人
硕士：香港科技大学, 社会科学部 2010-2012
学士：北京大学, 经济学院 2006-2010
研究领域:
主要方向: 发展经济学, 国际经济学 次要方向: 劳动与人口经济学, 环境经济学
发表论文:
“Who Coresides with Parents: An Analysis Based on Sibling Comparative Advantage”, with Fangqi Wen, 2016,Demography, 53(3), 623-647.
（谁与父母同住：基于子女比较优势的研究）
