Officials'Foreign Experience and Firms'Exports:Evidence from China

作     者：Yekun Xu Guangyuan Ma Lijuan Cui Yekun Xu;Guangyuan Ma;Lijuan Cui

作者机构：Business SchoolLiaoning UniversityChina School of AccountancyShanghai University of Finance and EconomicsChina School of EconomicsZhejiang UniversityChina. 

出 版 物：《China & World Economy》 (中国与世界经济（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2023年第31卷第3期

页      面：173-204页

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学科分类：02[经济学] 0202[经济学-应用经济学] 020206[经济学-国际贸易学] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.71802041) Liaoning Revitalization Talents Program(No.XLYC1907159) the Key Project of Social Science Fund of Liaoning Province(No.L20AGL009) and the Postgraduate Innovation Project of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics(No.CXJ2021304).The authors contributed equally.'According to statistics from the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China the number of foreign students in 2016 was 544 500 an increase of 144 900(32.6 percent)from 2012.The total number of returnees was 432 500 an increase of 159 600 from 2012.Available from:http://www.moe.gov.cn/jyb_xwfb/xw_fbh/moe_2069/xwfbh_2017n/xwfb_170301/170301_sfcl/201703/t20170301_297675.html[online cited November 2022] 

主　　题：firm exports foreign experience institutional distance learning effect local officials 

摘      要：This study examines how the foreign experience of local oficials affects firms exports in *** a matched sample from 2000 to 2012,we found that the foreign experience of municipal Party secretaries had a significant impact on the promotion of firms exports,especially for private *** positive impact was more pronounced when officials went abroad at a younger age,stayed abroad for a longer period,returned to China for a longer time,and had greater promotion *** found that officials foreign experience helped to mitigate the negative impact of institutional distance and provided firms with better access to export subsidies,both of which could promote *** was also a complementary effect when officials and executives both had foreign ***,our study provides some insights into the economic outcomes of officials foreign experience and sheds light on the export performance of Chinese firms.