Page1 FDI and Productivity Spillovers in China, a Meta-Analysis By Pouria Masoumy Berlin School of Economics and Law s_masoumy@stud.hwr-berlin.de Behzad Azarhoushang University of Kassel azarhoushang.behzad@gmail.com ETSG Paris This version: July 2015 Extremely preliminary, please do not cite Abstract: There are numerous empirical research about the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on technology spillover in China which are not unanimous in their results. This paper, by using meta-regression analysis, blends, explains and finally summaries almost all the recent published empirical literatures on the effect of FDI on technology spillover in China in industry level for the period of 1995 to 2013. This paper is part of my master thesis which is not completed yet, however; I have determined outline and the methodology I will use during my research. In this meta-regression analysis, we will regress study estimates of spillover on some study characteristics in order to find out the direction and significance of FDI’ spillover. Although we haven’t got the result now, our hypothesis is that, factors including degree of freedom, different estimators, types of FDI and estimation period should have significant effect on the final estimates. Keywords: foreign direct investment (FDI), meta-regression analysis, China