Does the establishment of Pilot Free Trade Zones promote international expansion of enterprises? Quasi-natural experimental evidence from China

• Wenqi Jing,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Business, Inner Mongolia University of Finance and Economics, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0003-0233-6405

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• Yi Zheng,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Business, Inner Mongolia University of Finance and Economics, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

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• Xiuqing Shen

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nmhqg@163.com

  Affiliation School of Business, Inner Mongolia University of Finance and Economics, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-2363-5655

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