Why do zombie firms seldom die or resurrect? The effect of government subsidies on the survival duration of China’s zombie firms

One of the most important tasks in China’s supply-side structural reform is to effectively clean up zombie firms. Using industrial firm-level data in China from 1998 to 2007, we identified zombie firms in Chinese industrial sectors. Based on the identified zombie firms, we measured the survival dura...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Deng Ming, Wang Jinbo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2022-08-01
Series:Economics: Journal Articles
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/econ-2022-0029