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We use firm-level data to identify financial frictions in China and explore the extent to which they can explain firms' saving and capital misallocation. We first document the features of the data in terms of firm dynamics and debt financing. State-owned firms have higher leverage and pay much...
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By comparing uncollateralized business loans made by a big tech lending program with conventional bank loans, we find that big tech loans tend to be smaller and have higher interest rates and that borrowers of big tech loans tend to repay far before maturity and borrow more frequently. These...
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Investments in the US Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Innovation (STEMI) enterprise come from many … innovative than government or business funding alone would yield. It also enables significant innovation in the development of …
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Global innovation and entrepreneurship has traditionally been dominated by a handful of high-income countries …, especially the US. This paper investigates the international consequences of the rise of a new hub for innovation, focusing on …-ranging positive consequences, including a rise in serial entrepreneurship, cross-sector spillovers, innovation, and broader measures …
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the allocation and impacts of innovation subsidies, using the data from the China Employer Employee Survey (CEES). We find … that the innovation subsidies are preferentially allocated to state owned firms and politically connected firms. Of these … also find that the firms that receive innovation subsidies file and receive more patents, are more likely to introduce new …
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Governments are important financiers of private sector innovation. While these public funds can ease capital … for innovation programs strengthened the relationship between firms' historical innovative efficiency and subsequent … changes: subsidies became significantly positively associated with future innovation after the anti-corruption campaign and …
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This paper exploits a tax reform on manufacturing firms in China to study the impact of taxes on firm innovation. The … innovation. Moreover, the reform has a bigger impact on firms that are financially constrained and firms that engage more in tax …
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Data-intensive technologies, like AI, are increasingly widespread. We argue that the direction of innovation and growth … implications of government data access for the direction of innovation, growth, and welfare. We conclude with three applications … showing how data-intensive innovation may be shaped by the state: both directly, by setting industrial policy; and indirectly …
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innovation by firms, and ask if it impacted firms more than 30 years later. We examine the innovation of firms with CEOs who …
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from China impact U.S. innovation through the markets for innovation and existing products. We identify shocks to … innovation competition using the geography of Chinese internet penetration and Chinese import data. Increases in the ability of …
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