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Research Article

Do Government R&D Subsidies Stimulate Corporate R&D Investment? Evidence from a Quasi-natural Experiment

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Pages 280-284 | Published online: 06 Oct 2021
 

ABSTRACT

This paper examines the impact of Guangdong provincial R&D subsidies policy on corporate R&D investment.1

1 Guangdong has ranked first in terms of GDP in all Chinese provinces for many years. There are 643 Chinese A-share stock market listed firms in Guangdong in 2019.

Using a large sample of Chinese firms for the 2011–2017 period and DID methodology, we find that government R&D subsidies have a negative and significant effect on corporate R&D investment. Our findings are robust to a battery of sensitivity tests. Our study supports the ‘crowd out effect’ of government R&D subsidies.

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Notes

1 Guangdong has ranked first in terms of GDP in all Chinese provinces for many years. There are 643 Chinese A-share stock market listed firms in Guangdong in 2019.

2 The detailed information is available at http://czt.gd.gov.cn/gkmlpt/content/0/187/post_187689.html#85.

3 We include the holding ratio of the controlling shareholder (Top1) because the concentrated ownership makes the controlling shareholder play an important role in Chinese firm operation (Jiang and Kim Citation2020)

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