An Empirical Study of Foreign Direct Investment Location in Eastern China

This paper examines the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) for the Eastern Region of China as a whole by excluding the two lesser jurisdictions and concentrating on the Big Five jurisdictions from 1993 to 2005. Robust estimates and a better understanding of FDI in Eastern China are obtained by employing robust Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), the randomeffect model, and the fixed-effect model separately on each case. Without any …