We investigate the “creative destruction” through the role of typhoon occurrence on existing firms’ innovation and firm creation for the universe of Chinese firms by utilizing novel administrative data. We find that typhoon occurrence during a firm’s early life reduces both patent...

We study the impact of government-supported e-commerce infrastructure on entrepreneurship using an exogenous policy shock in China. Using a staggered difference-in-differences method and a novel administrative dataset during a period from 2011 to 2017, we find that treated counties saw a rise of...