Chinese Listed Company Productivity and Foreign Investment, 2011-2021

2011-2021 data on A-share Chinese listed companies, used to analyze the effects of inward and outward foreign direct investment on corporate total factor productivity. The dataset includes moderating variables like environmental information disclosure quality and technological innovation. It was created by Yu Duan and published on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between inward foreign direct investment and total factor productivity.
• Analyzing the moderating effect of corporate environmental information disclosure on productivity.
• Comparing the impact of foreign investment on state-owned versus non-state-owned listed companies.
• Investigating regional differences in productivity effects between central/western and other regions in China.

Strengths

• Covers an 11-year time span from 2011 to 2021.
• Includes multiple analysis dimensions: regional, ownership type, and pollution intensity.
• The description indicates results were validated with a series of robustness tests.

Limitations

• Dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, suggesting limited scope or a summary table.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Yu Duan via figshare.

Collection Method

Likely compiled from financial reports and disclosures of A-share Chinese listed companies.

Time Range

2011-2021

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 17:33:34; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China, with specific analysis of central and western regions.