Financial factors have been found highly important in influencing firms’ real activities and in promoting aggregate growth. Yet, the linkage between finance and firm-level productivity has been overlooked in the literature. We fill this gap using a panel of 130,840 Chinese manufacturing firms...

Financial factors have been found highly important in influencing firms’ real activities and in promoting aggregate growth. Yet, the linkage between finance and firm-level productivity has been overlooked. We fill this gap in the literature using a large panel of Chinese manufacturing firms...

Financial factors have been found highly important in influencing firms' real activities and in promoting aggregate growth. Yet, the linkage between finance and firm-level productivity has been overlooked. We fill this gap in the literature using a large panel of Chinese manufacturing firms over...