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Table 4 The effect of China OFDI on export trade: regression of sub developing sample (the estimation of PPML)

From: Does Chinese OFDI really promote export?

Explanatory variable:

China’s exports to the host country

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

1-year lag of OFDI stock

0.120**

(1.96)

0.028

(1.39)

2-year lag of OFDI stock

0.105*

(1.69)

0.003

(0.19)

3-year lag of OFDI stock

0.090

(1.50)

−0.013

(−0.70)

Control variables in the gravity model

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Individual fixed effect

No

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

N

1245

1128

1008

1245

1128

1008

R 2

0.575

0.565

0.557

0.962

0.964

0.964

  1. Note: (1) the control variables in the gravity model include GDP of the host country, GDP of China, geographic distance, the border dummy, the common language dummy, the FTA with China dummy, the OECD dummy, the WTO dummy, regional fixed effects, legal origin fixed effects, year fixed effects; (2) the value in the brackets is the t statistic; (3) **, * is the significant level of 5 %, 10 % respectively; (4) the estimation of the standard errors of coefficients is clustered on the individual country level