• Medientyp: Bericht; E-Book
  • Titel: Demographics and FDI: Lessons from China's one-child policy
  • Beteiligte: Donaldson, John B. [Verfasser:in]; Koulovatianos, Christos [Verfasser:in]; Li, Jian [Verfasser:in]; Mehra, Rajnish [Verfasser:in]
  • Erschienen: Frankfurt a. M.: Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Financial Studies (CFS), 2018
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Schlagwörter: FDI-intensity ; F11 ; F21 ; Lucas paradox ; capital-labor ratio ; E13 ; one-child policy ; J11 ; O11
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  • Beschreibung: Following the introduction of the one-child policy in China, the capital-labor (K/L) ratio of China increased relative to that of India, and, simultaneously, FDI inflows relative to GDP for China versus India declined. These observations are explained in the context of a simple neoclassical OLG paradigm. The adjustment mechanism works as follows: the reduction in the growth rate of the (urban) labor force due to the one-child policy permanently increases the capital per worker inherited from the previous generation. The resulting increase in China's (domestic K)/L thus "crowds out" the need for FDI in China relative to India. Our paper is a contribution to the nascent literature exploring demographic transitions and their effects on FDI flows.
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