Foreign Direct Investment and Unequal Regional Economic Growth in China

Export as endogenous (and therefore not included) variable in the data for China is
supported by the following estimated equation:

FEXPPC = .02674 + .006470*FDFIPC + .8852FEXPPC(-1) + .1579SEZ
(.88)      (5.47)            (24.72)              (3.13)

R² = .9165 Adj.R² = .9154 Obs. = 232

Where

FEXPPC - fixed price export per capita

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