Analysis of the Impact of Asian Financial Crisis on Shanghai's Utilization of Foregin Direct Investment

摘要

The Asian financial crisis has increasingly shown its in-fluence on the utilization of foreign direct investment inShanghai. To further explain this, the main factors thatplay important roles in the decision of foreign direct in-vestment in Shanghai are analyzed. The extent of influ-ence is measured according to the changes of those decis-ive factors. A simple linear regression model is intro-duced to help the analysis.