Liu, Peisen; Li, Houjian - In: Journal of applied economics 23 (2020) 1, pp. 519-538
competition has dubious effects due to various firm characteristics. This study uses Chinese banking and firm data from 1998 to … 2011 to examine how bank competition affects firm innovation and how firm size and ownership influence the effects of bank … competition. The results show that bank competition promotes firm-level innovation and that this positive effect is stronger for …