China’s Smart Cities Policy and Corporate Research and Development Intensity - A Quasi-Natural Experiment

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10.2991/978-94-6463-200-2_58How to use a DOI?

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smart cities; R&D; difference-in-difference; quasi-natural experiment

Abstract

In this paper, we explore the impact of smart city policies on corporate R&D using a sample of Chinese a-share listed firms from 2008–2018. Our findings show that smart city policies have a catalytic effect on local firms’ R&D compared to cities that were not selected as smart cities. In addition, we find that firms with different characteristics exhibit heterogeneity in this process. Specifically, Chinese resource-based cities and southern cities are more influenced by this policy.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Chunyu Jia
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/07/26
TI  - China’s Smart Cities Policy and Corporate Research and Development Intensity - A Quasi-Natural Experiment
BT  - Proceedings of the 2023 3rd International Conference on Public Management and Intelligent Society (PMIS 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 564
EP  - 576
SN  - 2589-4919
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-200-2_58
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-200-2_58
ID  - Jia2023
ER  -