Green innovation is an effective approach to break the constraints of resource availability and environment protection that the firms face. China has set up the political inspection team to fight against corruption and deepen reform of state-owned firms in recent years. From 2013 to 2015,...

This study utilizes firm-level data from the World Bank's Enterprise Survey Indicator Database, conducted between 2009 and 2018 for 32 countries in Africa, to examine the causal relationship between firm productivity, innovation, and financial development. We show evidence that firm innovation...