کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5104050 1377416 2007 12 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Firm R&D, innovation and easing financial constraints in China: Does corporate tax reform matter?
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی مدیریت، کسب و کار و حسابداری کسب و کار و مدیریت بین المللی
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Firm R&D, innovation and easing financial constraints in China: Does corporate tax reform matter?
چکیده انگلیسی
This paper studies the relationship between firms' innovation activities, financial constraints and corporate tax reform in China. A firm-level proxy for financial constraints is derived using cash-flow analysis and subsequently linked to various innovation activities of the firm. As an identification strategy, difference-in-differences with exact matching is employed to study whether a reduction in the corporate tax burden via China's 2004 value-added tax (VAT) reform influences firms' innovation activities given they face increasing financial constraints. The results reveal that low access to liquidity in the private sector has a persistent negative effect on firms' innovation activities and reduces the innovation success for more R&D intensive firms. Given increasing financial constraints, a reduction in private-sector firms' corporate tax burden spurs new product and process sales despite failing to affect either their decision to pursue R&D or the amount to invest. The findings suggest that easing financial constraints alone cannot correct the market failure caused by underinvestment in China's private sector.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Research Policy - Volume 45, Issue 10, December 2016, Pages 1996-2007
نویسندگان
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