Title: Do Method and Structure Heterogeneity Affect the Verdicts of FDI Spillovers? An Analysis Based on Meta-Regression
Abstract: This paper presents a meta-analysis of the empirical literature on FDI spillovers to indentify whether the findings of FDI spillovers are affected by method and structure heterogeneity factors.The meta-analysis results suggest that the findings of FDI spillovers are influenced by the indices construction,data characteristic and omitted variables problem;the probabilities of negative FDI horizontal spillovers are higher but the significances of FDI vertical spillovers are lower when the DGMM/sys-GMM econometric method is used in the empirical literature;the probabilities of positive FDI horizontal spillovers and significance of FDI spillovers of Midwest region grouping,state owned enterprise grouping,and Taiwan,Hong Kong,Macao China grouping are overestimated when the aggregate data are used in the empirical literature;the probabilities of negative and insignificant FDI horizontal spillovers are higher than ones of FDI vertical spillovers;the probabilities of significant FDI forward spillovers are lower than ones of FDI backward spillovers.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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