A Fire Sale without Fire: An Explanation of Labor-Intensive FDI in China

Using a large firm-level panel dataset from the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics, we examine the effect of financial distortions on FDI inflows in China's labor-intensive industries. Following Whited and Wu (2006), we estimate the investment Euler equation and construct a financing constra...

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Main Authors: Zhang, Yifan, Yang, Zhi, Ma, Yue, Huang, Yasheng
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65616