Qilin Mao

Biographic Data

ID4459467
NAMEQilin Mao
GIVEN NAMESQilin
FAMILY NAMEMao
SIGNATUREMAO Q
AFFILIATIONSCenter for Transnationals' Studies Nankai University Tianjin China
ORCID0000-0002-4984-2191
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • VAT credit refund policy and outward foreign direct investment

    Open AccessQilin Mao, Yueqing WangARTICLEContemporary Economic Policy2026

    We employ China's 2018 value‐added tax credit refund reform as a quasi‐natural experiment to investigate the policy's impact on firms' outward foreign direct investment (FDI). We find that the policy significantly promotes firms' outward FDI through improved liquidity, increased risk‐taking capacity, and heightened innovation incentives. The effect is stronger for non‐state‐owned enterprises, high‐tax‐burden firms, credit‐accumulating firms, and …

  • Growth Pressures, Stimulus Plan, and Foreign Entry

    Open AccessQilin Mao, Jiayun Xu et al.ARTICLEScottish Journal of Political…2025References: 1

    In response to the international financial crisis, China's actual utilization of foreign capital experienced a significant decline in 2009, followed by a rapid rebound that surpassed previous levels. This paper investigates the impact of the four‐trillion‐yuan stimulus package implemented by the Chinese government in 2008 on the dynamics of foreign investment. Our findings indicate that growth pressures drive local governments to actively utilize…

  • Trade policy uncertainty and capacity utilisation rate

    Open AccessQilin Mao, Jiayun Xu et al.ARTICLEWorld Economy2024

    This paper was one of the first to explore the impact of trade policy uncertainty (TPU) reduction on Chinese firm capacity utilisation rate from the perspective of trade policy variation. Based on a quasi‐natural experiment of the implementation of Permanent Normal Trade Relation (PNTR) after China's WTO accession, this paper adopts the difference‐in‐difference (DID) method to conduct empirical analysis, and finds that reduction in TPU significan…

  • The Impact of Input Trade Liberalization on the Entry of Foreign Firms

    Qilin Mao, Jiayun XuARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2024

    This paper integrates trade policy and foreign direct investment into a unified analytical framework, and investigates the effects of input trade liberalization on the entry of foreign firms. To identify the causal effects, we utilize China’s accession to the WTO in 2001 as a quasi-natural experiment, and perform difference-in-difference estimation. The results show that input trade liberalization significantly increases foreign entry. We also fi…