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Research on the Impact of Different Amount of Subsidy with Regard to Overcapacity: Evidence from Steel CO. in China

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Xinxiang Mei, Xi Peng
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Xinxiang Mei
Available Online September 2018.
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10.2991/hssmee-18.2018.50How to use a DOI?
Keywords
subsidy, overcapacity, rent-seeking, R&D investment.
Abstract

Government subsidy have an important impact on the production capacity of steel enterprises, it is yet unclear whether they reduce or aggravate enterprises’ overcapacity. We take the firm-level data of steel enterprises from 1998 to 2014 as a sample, the methods of Propensity score matching (PSM) and Difference-in-Difference (DID) are used to address the impact of government subsidy on overcapacity. The results show that government subsidy have not a generally significant impact on the overcapacity of enterprises, since the different levels of government subsidy on overcapacity has offset each other. Low-level subsidy has no significant impact on the overcapacity. The effect of medium-level subsidy is positive and statistically significant. While, the coefficient of the huge-level subsidy is significantly negative, indicating that enterprises with huge-level subsidy have more serious overcapacity. Furthermore, Mediation model is applied to provide strong evidence that rent-seeking investment and the weakening of research and development (R&D) incentives are the important channels for the huge-level subsidy curbing overcapacity.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2018 International Symposium on Humanities and Social Sciences, Management and Education Engineering (HSSMEE 2018)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
September 2018
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978-94-6252-604-4
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2352-5398
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10.2991/hssmee-18.2018.50How to use a DOI?
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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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