Financial constraints, government subsidies, and corporate innovation.

To investigate the relationships between financial constraints, government subsidies, and corporate innovation, a semi-logarithmic fixed-effect panel model and mediation effect test were applied, based on the data of Chinese listed companies from 2007 to 2017. We find that (1) financial constraints...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:565f5da19809424c9da2f45ab9f94b992021-12-02T20:07:40ZFinancial constraints, government subsidies, and corporate innovation.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0259642https://doaj.org/article/565f5da19809424c9da2f45ab9f94b992021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259642https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203To investigate the relationships between financial constraints, government subsidies, and corporate innovation, a semi-logarithmic fixed-effect panel model and mediation effect test were applied, based on the data of Chinese listed companies from 2007 to 2017. We find that (1) financial constraints suppress corporate innovation. (2) Government subsidies are targeted at bailing out firms facing financial constraints. (3) Government subsidies promote corporate innovation (4) Government subsidies partially offset the suppression of financial constraints on innovation. We contribute to the fields of public finance, corporate finance, and corporate innovation by: (1) justifying the government subsidies target strategy as a bailout of corporate financial constraints, (2) verifying the corporate-innovation promotion of government subsidies, thus justifying the efficiency of government subsidies, and (3) showing that different types of innovation benefit differently from subsidies, thus justifying subsidies as a structural innovation engine.Qi LiJiaojiao WangGuohua CaoJing ZhangPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 11, p e0259642 (2021)
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Qi Li
Jiaojiao Wang
Guohua Cao
Jing Zhang
Financial constraints, government subsidies, and corporate innovation.
description To investigate the relationships between financial constraints, government subsidies, and corporate innovation, a semi-logarithmic fixed-effect panel model and mediation effect test were applied, based on the data of Chinese listed companies from 2007 to 2017. We find that (1) financial constraints suppress corporate innovation. (2) Government subsidies are targeted at bailing out firms facing financial constraints. (3) Government subsidies promote corporate innovation (4) Government subsidies partially offset the suppression of financial constraints on innovation. We contribute to the fields of public finance, corporate finance, and corporate innovation by: (1) justifying the government subsidies target strategy as a bailout of corporate financial constraints, (2) verifying the corporate-innovation promotion of government subsidies, thus justifying the efficiency of government subsidies, and (3) showing that different types of innovation benefit differently from subsidies, thus justifying subsidies as a structural innovation engine.
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author Qi Li
Jiaojiao Wang
Guohua Cao
Jing Zhang
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Jiaojiao Wang
Guohua Cao
Jing Zhang
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title Financial constraints, government subsidies, and corporate innovation.
title_short Financial constraints, government subsidies, and corporate innovation.
title_full Financial constraints, government subsidies, and corporate innovation.
title_fullStr Financial constraints, government subsidies, and corporate innovation.
title_full_unstemmed Financial constraints, government subsidies, and corporate innovation.
title_sort financial constraints, government subsidies, and corporate innovation.
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