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

From 2011 to 2021, this dataset includes A-share Chinese listed companies as research samples for analyzing the effects of two-way foreign direct investment (FDI) on corporate total factor productivity (TFP). It was created by Yu Duan and uploaded to figshare in March 2026. The data supports robustness tests and moderating analyses involving environmental disclosure and technological innovation.

Use Cases

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

Strengths

• Covers an 11-year time range from 2011 to 2021.
• Includes data for A-share Chinese listed companies, a specific and defined sample.
• Has undergone a series of robustness tests as noted in the description.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited scope.
• 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 disclosures and reports of A-share Chinese listed companies for academic research.

Time Range

2011-2021

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 17:33:42; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China (A-share listed companies)