Institutions and Investments

Foreign Direct Investment in China during an Era of Reforms

By Jun Fu

Subjects: Economics, International Economics, Asian Studies, Business, Law
Ebook : 9780472026869, 312 pages, 22 drawings, 5 photographs, 42 tables, 1 map, June 2010
Hardcover : 9780472111787, 312 pages, 22 drawings, 5 photographs, 42 tables, 1 map, 6 x 9, November 2000
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Provides an in-depth look at how China's financial institutions interact with foreign investment

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Table of Contents

List of Maps, Tables, and Figures-vii
Abbreviations-xiii
Acknowledgments-xvii 

Introduction and Synopsis-1

 Part 1: Institutions
1. Evolution of China's FDI Regulatory Framework-25
2. International Perspectives-63

Part 2: Investments
3. Principal Modes of FDI in China-95
4. Trends and Patterns of FDI-119

Part 3: Evidence
5. Politics of Taxation and High Demand for FDI-165
6. Institutions Matter-193

Conclusions-222
References-238
Index-273
 

Description

As China continues to be heralded as a rising economic power, the need for an understanding of its institutional effects--such as investment-related policies, regulations, and laws--on foreign direct investment increases as well. Institutions and Investments employs interdisciplinary perspectives from economics, business, law, and political science to shed light on the interaction between institutional changes and investment patterns and to form a clear picture of investment behavior as China's legal and regulatory infrastructure has developed over the reform years.
Organized into three main parts, the book first discusses the evolution and nature of China's FDI regulatory framework. Part 2 examines the various modes and variant patterns of FDI in China in the reform years. Part 3's central task is to demonstrate a systematic link between institutional changes in China's FDI regulatory framework and the changing patterns of FDI. In conclusion, Jun Fu finds that China has made substantial progress from a command economy to a market system, but that it still has a long way to go before it truly attains a transparent and rule-based system.
This book adds new dimensions to the scholarship on China as a growing economic power and will be of particular interest to international economists, political scientists, and business scholars studying China.
Jun Fu is Associate Professor in the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University.

Jun Fu is Associate Professor in the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University.