Reasonable assessments of the impact of information infrastructure construction on entrepreneurship will support the development of the digital economy in China. Using nationwide data from 2005 to 2017, this paper analyzes the causal effect of the “Broadband China” pilot policy on...

We investigate the effect of digital finance on corporate environmental, social and governance (ESG). Using a large sample of Chinese listed firm over the period 2011-2020, we find that digital finance positively affects corporate ESG performance, which remains robust after a series of...

Using the US-China trade war as a quasi-natural experiment, we investigate how downstream firm shrinkage affects upstream firm employment from the perspective of supply chain transmission effects with a difference-in-differences (DID) design. We reveal a significant negative impact of downstream...