Chinese Listed Companies' Productivity and Foreign Investment, 2011-2021

From 2011 to 2021, this dataset contains research samples of A-share Chinese listed companies, examining the relationship between two-way foreign direct investment (FDI) and corporate total factor productivity. It was created by Yu Duan and shared on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license. The data includes analyses of moderating factors like environmental information disclosure and technological innovation.

Use Cases

• Modeling the impact of inward vs. outward foreign direct investment on corporate productivity based on the described research variables.
• Analyzing the moderating effect of corporate environmental information disclosure quality on productivity-investment relationships.
• Investigating regional and ownership disparities in FDI effects, as suggested by findings for central/western regions and state-owned companies.
• Testing hypotheses on how technological innovation moderates the link between two-way FDI and total factor productivity.

Strengths

• Covers an 11-year time range from 2011 to 2021.
• Data is associated with a study that performed a series of robustness tests, as mentioned in the description.
• Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited scope or a summary-level dataset.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.

Provenance

Source

Yu Duan via figshare.

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2011-2021

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 17:33:48; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China, with specific analysis of central and western regions.