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May 2022

The Reverse Bail-Out of Indebted Local Governments by Local Firms

Ben CHAROENWONG, Meng MIAO, Zhengyu ZUO
Using a dataset of over one million local government procurement contracts in China, we study whether the government’s indebtedness causes delays in payment which can be averse to suppliers’ financial conditions. Higher local government distress predicts an increase in accounts receivables for s...
Keywords: Public procurement auctions, sovereign risk, financial distress
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May 2022

Advanced Manufacturing, Product Innovations, Productivity and Growth

Elvira SOJLI, Leo LIU, Wing Wah THAM
This paper studies the role and complementarity of advanced manufacturing processes and product innovations for growth using new time-varying measures of process innovations, validated by patent examiners, from 1900 to 2020 across 60 countries. We uncover large and distinct effects of advanced manuf...
Keywords: Process innovation, Product innovation, Process-driven products, firm growth, Economic growth, Growth convergence
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May 2022

Smokestacks and the Swamp

Arkodipta SARKAR, Emilio BISETTI, Stefan LEWELLEN, Xiao ZHAO
We examine the causal effect of politicians’ partisan ideologies on the industrial pollution decisions of constituent firms. Using a regression discontinuity design involving close U.S. congressional elections, we show that plants increase pollution and invest less in emissions abatement following...
Keywords: Political ideology, industrial pollution, reallocation, health outcomes
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May 2022

CEO Hometown Favoritism in Corporate Environmental Policies

Qifei ZHU, Wei LI, Qiping XU
We exploit within-firm variations in plant-level toxic releases to document the effect of managerial hometown favoritism on corporate environmental policies. We find that pollution intensity is 20% lower for plants near CEOs’ hometowns, and this reduction is facilitated by waste management efforts...
Keywords: CEO, Hometown favoritism, Corporate environmental policies, Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
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May 2022

Coming to the Rescue: the Role of Government Venture Capital in the U.S.-China Trade War

Joy CHEN, Robin Kaiji GONG, Jinlin LI
Based on a novel dataset of venture capital (VC) funds and startups in China, we study the impact of the U.S.-China trade war on China’s VC market and the role of government-funded VCs (GVCs). Employing a difference-in-differences strategy, we document that independent venture capital funds (IVCs)...
Keywords: Trade War, Venture Capital, Innovation, Industrial Policy, China
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