Chinese A-Share Listed Companies and Two-Way FDI Effects, 2011-2021

Yu Duan's 2026 research dataset examines the differential impact of inward and outward foreign direct investment on corporate total factor productivity. The data covers A-share Chinese listed companies from 2011 to 2021 and includes moderating factors like environmental information disclosure quality and technological innovation. It is a 9.5 KB XLS file shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license on figshare.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between inward FDI and corporate total factor productivity based on the described research focus.
• Analyzing the moderating effect of environmental information disclosure quality on the FDI-productivity link as described.
• Investigating regional heterogeneity in FDI effects for companies in central and western China as mentioned in the paper.
• Comparing the productivity impact of FDI between state-owned and non-state-owned listed companies as indicated.

Strengths

• Data covers an 11-year time range from 2011 to 2021.
• The author reports that baseline results were validated through a series of robustness tests.
• File is small (9.5 KB), facilitating quick download and initial inspection.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset's 9.5 KB size suggests a very limited scope or aggregated summary data.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Yu Duan.

Collection Method

Likely compiled from financial reports and disclosures of A-share listed companies for research purposes.

Time Range

2011 to 2021

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 17:33:46; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China (A-share listed companies)