Does Government Subsidy Affect Firm Survival? Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms

Dongyang Zhang and Gang Xu

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2019, vol. 55, issue 11, 2628-2651

Abstract: This article applies a matching approach to deal with the selection bias and use the complementary log-log model to analyze the impacts of subsidy on Chinese manufacturing firms’ survival from 1998 to 2007. Our empirical results show that government subsidies significantly decrease the likelihood of firm exit. However, the effect decreases as the level of subsidies increases for private and foreign firms, but displays a nonlinear relationship across subsidy levels for SOEs. We also show the effects vary across the levels of institutional quality measured by the prevalence of rent seeking and government intervention. Further results suggest that the potential channels include increased investment in intangible and fixed assets as well as enhanced profitability.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/1540496X.2018.1530655

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