Reaping digital dividends: Digital inclusive finance and high-quality development of enterprises in China

Chien-Chiang Lee (), Manting Tang and Chi-Chuan Lee

Telecommunications Policy, 2023, vol. 47, issue 2

Abstract: The digital economy is progressively emerging as a new driving force for high-quality development in China and has been paving a new avenue for enterprise development through the progress of the digital inclusive finance (DIF) system. Under this paradigm of development, this research examines whether and how DIF exerts an influence on the China's economy which is currently experiencing a transition development of enterprises (HQDE). Using a sample of China's listed companies from 2011 to 2019, the results demonstrate that DIF has a significant favorable impact on HQDE. Furthermore, our analysis finds that reducing financial leverage and alleviating financial constraints are intermediary mechanisms of the effect. Moreover, the beneficial effect of DIF varies in terms of different regions, enterprise property rights, and industrial nature—it is observed to be more pronounced in the eastern region, non-state-owned enterprises, and tertiary industry enterprises. Our results provide empirical evidence that DIF enables enterprises to achieve high-quality development.

Keywords: Enterprise high-quality development; Digital inclusive finance; Total factor productivity; Chinese-listed companies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2022.102484

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