Event: China Invests Overseas: Regulation and Representation

China has become an influential source of foreign direct investment in the last decade. The growth coincides with a series of regulatory reforms governing China’s outbound direct investment (CODI). The paper studies the new regulation of CODI and explains distortion and disjuncture in CODI, particularly the under-representation of private companies, the market-defying geographic and sector concentration, and generally low profitability of China’s outbound investment. The paper uses statistics published by Chinese government and international organizations, as well as a number of interviews at private companies.

Time: Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Location: Eilts Room, Department of International Relations | 154 Bay State Road, 2nd Floor