The impact of robot adoption on firm’s OFDI: Evidence from China

IF 2.9 3区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI:10.1016/j.asieco.2025.101901

Shuzhong Ma , Peng Wu , Chao Fang

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Abstract

Increased robot adoption is expected to affect existing global production organizations and prompt reshoring. We analyze the impact of robot adoption on Chinese firms’ outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) to ascertain trends in industry migration. Robust difference-in-differences (DID) estimates from the three datasets show a positive effect of robot adoption on the different motives for OFDI. This impact was driven by production expansion, with robot adoption raising firms’ demand for factors, increasing productivity, and expanding exports. This positive effect is stronger for knowledge-seeking and export-seeking OFDI, particularly for upstream firms. These findings suggest that reshoring may not occur, as predicted in the literature.

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机器人采用对企业对外直接投资的影响：来自中国的证据

机器人应用的增加预计会影响现有的全球生产组织，并促使回流。我们分析了机器人的采用对中国企业对外直接投资（OFDI）的影响，以确定产业迁移的趋势。来自三个数据集的鲁棒差分（DID）估计显示机器人的采用对OFDI的不同动机有积极影响。这种影响是由生产扩张推动的，机器人的采用提高了企业对要素的需求，提高了生产率，扩大了出口。这种正向效应对于求知型和出口导向型的对外直接投资更为明显，尤其是对上游企业。这些发现表明，正如文献预测的那样，回流可能不会发生。

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Journal of Asian Economics ECONOMICS-

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4.70

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9.40%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Asian Economics provides a forum for publication of increasingly growing research in Asian economic studies and a unique forum for continental Asian economic studies with focus on (i) special studies in adaptive innovation paradigms in Asian economic regimes, (ii) studies relative to unique dimensions of Asian economic development paradigm, as they are investigated by researchers, (iii) comparative studies of development paradigms in other developing continents, Latin America and Africa, (iv) the emerging new pattern of comparative advantages between Asian countries and the United States and North America.