 Corporate financial fragility, R&D investment, and corporate green innovation: Evidence from ChinaZuomin Zhang, Yingjue Wu and Honglei Wang Finance Research Letters, 2024, vol. 62, issue PB Abstract: We investigate the impact of corporate financial fragility on corporate green innovation and its underlying mechanisms. Using a sample of Chinese A-share listed firms from 2013 to 2019, we find that financially fragile firms are more likely to reduce green innovation than general innovation. Mechanism analysis indicates that corporate financial fragility diminishes firms' R&D investments, restraining their green innovation activities. Furthermore, we observe that overall subsidies increase R&D expenditure but that this effect is similar for firms that are more financially fragile. However, subsidies have a less intense effect on increasing green patents for financially fragile firms than for other firms; for firms that receive more subsidies, the effect of R&D on green patents is slightly more substantial. This study elucidates the mechanism of corporate financial status on corporate green innovation and compares the different impacts of government subsidies on green innovation between financially fragile firms and general firms. Keywords: Corporate financial fragility; Green innovation; R&d investment; Government subsidy (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:finlet:v:62:y:2024:i:pb:s1544612324002204 DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.105190 Access Statistics for this article Finance Research Letters is currently edited by R. Gençay More articles in Finance Research Letters from Elsevier |
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