最后，合资企业以外的本土公司本身也可能受到外商投资产生的技术扩散的影响，并可能间接受益于外国技术的传播。外商直接投资产生的知识外溢是中外合资企业产生的外部效应。

Evidenceon Partner Selection and the Effects of the Technology Transfer

合作伙伴选择和技术转让影响的证据

We quantify the channels outlined above inan econometric framework using an administrative firm-level data set that accounts for all joint ventures operating in China from 1998–2007. Our dataset allows usto observe detailed attributes of both the joint venture firms as well as the domestic Chinese partner firms, along with all other Chinese firms with at least 5 million RMB in yearly sales operating during the period of time covered by our sample.

我们采用一个公司层面的数据库，对上述计量经济学框架中列出的渠道进行了量化分析。该数据库涵盖了1998年至2007年在华经营的所有合资企业，这使我们可以观察到合资公司和中国国内合作伙伴公司的详细属性，以及在我们的样本所涵盖的时间段内，年销售额至少为500万元人民币的所有其他中国公司的详细属性。

First, we explore the characteristics ofthe domestic Chinese firms that are selected as partners to form an IJV. The Chinese firms most likely to be chosen as partners in IJVs are larger and more productive (as measured by total factor productivity), engage in more innovation and patenting, and are more export-oriented. Such productive, well-established firms on the frontiers of innovation are the firms that possess the absorptive capacity (after Cohen and Levinthal 1990) to benefit from the intergenerational technology transfer effect posited earlier.