Impact of financial subsidies on the R&D intensity of new energy vehicles: A case study of 88 listed enterprises in China

Although policy support for emerging industries has become an important choice for the world's major economies, the deviation between policy objectives and the status quo of industrial development indicates that it is remains necessary to conduct a comprehensive analysis of industrial policies....

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Main Authors: Wei Shao, Ke Yang, Xiao Bai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-01-01
Series:Energy Strategy Reviews
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211467X20301334
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author Wei Shao
Ke Yang
Xiao Bai
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Xiao Bai
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description Although policy support for emerging industries has become an important choice for the world's major economies, the deviation between policy objectives and the status quo of industrial development indicates that it is remains necessary to conduct a comprehensive analysis of industrial policies. The marginal contribution of this paper is as follows:Based on the financial subsidy policy of China's new energy auto industry, this paper empirically studies the incentivization effect of R&D subsidies and production subsidies on the innovation of new energy auto companies and the difference between the two subsidies. Based on the data of 88 listed automobile manufacturers from 2001 to 2015, this paper performs a staged regression and counterfactual estimation. The results demonstrate that R&D subsidies have obvious incentives for R&D behavior of new energy auto companies, and the effect of the incentives of production subsidies on the R&D behavior of new energy auto companies are not obvious; the net effect of the production subsidy stage is estimated to be 25.47% of the R&D subsidy stage,and the intensity of the R&D subsidy stage is lower than is that of the stage of production subsidy, but the effect of subsidies is greater than is the stage of production subsidies, and the marginal effect of subsidies' intensity for corporate R&D activities is decreasing.
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spelling doaj.art-ff4b92a1de1240dbbd99f8242cf6590b2022-12-21T20:48:18ZengElsevierEnergy Strategy Reviews2211-467X2021-01-0133100580Impact of financial subsidies on the R&D intensity of new energy vehicles: A case study of 88 listed enterprises in ChinaWei Shao0Ke Yang1Xiao Bai2School of Economics, Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics, Hangzhou, 310018, ChinaSchool of Economics, Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics, Hangzhou, 310018, ChinaSchool of Finance, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hang Zhou 310018, China; Corresponding author.Although policy support for emerging industries has become an important choice for the world's major economies, the deviation between policy objectives and the status quo of industrial development indicates that it is remains necessary to conduct a comprehensive analysis of industrial policies. The marginal contribution of this paper is as follows:Based on the financial subsidy policy of China's new energy auto industry, this paper empirically studies the incentivization effect of R&D subsidies and production subsidies on the innovation of new energy auto companies and the difference between the two subsidies. Based on the data of 88 listed automobile manufacturers from 2001 to 2015, this paper performs a staged regression and counterfactual estimation. The results demonstrate that R&D subsidies have obvious incentives for R&D behavior of new energy auto companies, and the effect of the incentives of production subsidies on the R&D behavior of new energy auto companies are not obvious; the net effect of the production subsidy stage is estimated to be 25.47% of the R&D subsidy stage,and the intensity of the R&D subsidy stage is lower than is that of the stage of production subsidy, but the effect of subsidies is greater than is the stage of production subsidies, and the marginal effect of subsidies' intensity for corporate R&D activities is decreasing.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211467X20301334Counterfactual estimationSubsidy methodR&D intensity
spellingShingle Wei Shao
Ke Yang
Xiao Bai
Impact of financial subsidies on the R&D intensity of new energy vehicles: A case study of 88 listed enterprises in China
Energy Strategy Reviews
Counterfactual estimation
Subsidy method
R&D intensity
title Impact of financial subsidies on the R&D intensity of new energy vehicles: A case study of 88 listed enterprises in China
title_full Impact of financial subsidies on the R&D intensity of new energy vehicles: A case study of 88 listed enterprises in China
title_fullStr Impact of financial subsidies on the R&D intensity of new energy vehicles: A case study of 88 listed enterprises in China
title_full_unstemmed Impact of financial subsidies on the R&D intensity of new energy vehicles: A case study of 88 listed enterprises in China
title_short Impact of financial subsidies on the R&D intensity of new energy vehicles: A case study of 88 listed enterprises in China
title_sort impact of financial subsidies on the r d intensity of new energy vehicles a case study of 88 listed enterprises in china
topic Counterfactual estimation
Subsidy method
R&D intensity
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211467X20301334
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