The development of Digital Inclusive Finance (DIF) offers new opportunities for corporate innovation. This study empirically explores the influence of DIF on firms' R&D and innovation output via a two-way fixed-effects model and an instrumental variable method using the 2011-2018 Peking...

As the number of "ownerless" enterprises in China's capital market increases, so does the importance of paying attention to their behavior. From the perspective of enterprises' control rights allocation, we find that non-actual controllers can inhibit corporate innovation by intensifying agency...