The impact of economic policy uncertainty on firms' investment in innovation: Evidence from Chinese listed firms.

Wen Kun, Xiangxiang Hu, Fajiang Liu
Author Information
  1. Wen Kun: Hainan Vocational University of Science and Technology, Haikou, China.
  2. Xiangxiang Hu: School of Economics and Management, Hunan University, Changsha, China. ORCID
  3. Fajiang Liu: School of Economics and Management, Hunan University, Changsha, China.

Abstract

This paper uses data of Chinese listed enterprises and economic policy uncertainty index for empirical analysis, and conducts a study through three channels of monetary policy uncertainty affecting enterprise innovation investment, and finds that economic policy uncertainty has a positive promotion effect on enterprise R&D investment, and its increase in tension is instead a clear signal that can effectively increase enterprise R&D investment, this promotion effect seems unexpected, this paper Through theoretical analysis and combined with the actual practice, this incentive effect is found to be in line with reality. However, in the subsequent heterogeneity analysis, this paper finds that it positively promotes R&D investment when economic policy uncertainty is low and may have a suppressive effect on R&D investment when monetary policy uncertainty is high.

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MeSH Term

Uncertainty
Investments
China

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