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Trial Status
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in_development
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completed
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Abstract
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China’s rapid economic development and its central role as a driver of globalization have resulted in expanding economic ties with the European Union (EU) over the past few decades. However in the most recent years, given geo-political tensions there's also a lot of concerns within the EU over whether investment ties should be further strengthened with China. In this project, we plan to focus on one important dimension of such mutual economic ties: namely Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) between China and Germany, the latter of which is one of China's biggest investment partners within the EU.
Specifically, we propose to conduct a randomized information-provision survey experiment, in which we will survey the German public’s opinions towards inward Chinese Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) in Germany, where we will investigate first of all, whether there are major misperceptions from the German public when it comes to the actual figures and status quo with regards to Chinese FDIs inside Germany. And secondly, we will study the contrasting causal effects of negative (and positive) Chinese FDI narratives versus Chinese FDI facts on the formation of preferences towards Chinese investments.
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China's rapid economic development and its central role in driving globalization have significantly expanded its economic ties with the European Union (EU) over the past few decades. However, in recent years, geopolitical tensions have raised concerns within the EU about whether to further strengthen investment ties with China. This project focuses on a crucial aspect of these economic relations: Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) between China and Germany, one of China's largest investment partners within the EU.
We propose to conduct a randomized information-provision survey experiment to gauge the German public’s opinions on inward Chinese FDIs in Germany. This study will first investigate whether there are significant misperceptions among the German public regarding the actual figures and current status of Chinese FDIs in Germany. Secondly, we will examine the contrasting causal effects of negative and positive narratives about Chinese FDIs versus factual information of Chinese FDIs in Germany on shaping preferences towards these investments.
Given the close bilateral economic relationship between China and Germany, it is equally important to understand Chinese perceptions of German investments. Therefore, we will conduct an auxiliary survey experiment in China to measure the Chinese public's attitudes towards German FDIs in China. Given the relatively favorable portrayal of German investments in China, we aim to observe if there is a significant discrepancy in mutual perceptions of the economic benefits or threats posed by each other.
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Last Published
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January 23, 2023 06:47 AM
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August 01, 2024 03:26 AM
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Primary Outcomes (End Points)
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The German public's preferences towards Chinese investments, in terms of their ratings of hypothetical Chinese FDI proposals in Germany compared to FDI proposals from other EU countries or the US.
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The German public's preferences towards Chinese investments, which will be measured on a Likert scale ranging from -5 to 5,
where -5 is strongly disagree, 0 is neutral, and 5 is strongly support. It will also be measured in binary variables indicating whether they select a hypothetical Chinese FDI proposal in Germany compared to other FDI proposals from other EU countries or the US.
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Randomization Unit
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The unit of randomization is at the household Level, but the actual data collection will be at the individual level, which means all individuals within the same household will be allocated to the same treatment (control) group. Although the actual implementation will still be at the individual level, in the sense that individuals within the same household won't be jointly administered the same questionnaire at the same time (but rather interviewed separately on his/her own).
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The unit of randomization is at the household Level, but the actual data collection will be at the individual level, which means all individuals within the same household will be allocated to the same treatment (control) group. Although the actual implementation will still be at the individual level, in the sense that individuals within the same household won't be jointly administered the same questionnaire at the same time (but rather interviewed separately and independently on his/her own).
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Planned Number of Clusters
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We will cluster at the household level as well (which is also our unit of randomization). In total, there will be around 1,500 clusters (households).
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We will cluster at the household level as well (which is also our unit of randomization). In total, there will be around 1,738 clusters (households).
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Planned Number of Observations
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In total, we will have around 5,000 individual-level observations across 1,500 households within the Innovation Sample.
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In total, we will have around 2,365 individual-level observations (which is the unit of data collection), across 1,738 households within the Innovation Sample of SOEP.
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Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
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We will have around 1,250 individual-level observations per treatment arms, i.e. 375 clusters (households) per treatment arm as well.
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We will have around 590 individual-level observations per treatment arm, and around 435 clusters (households) per treatment arm.
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