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Does the Crowd-Out Effect of R&D Subsidies Exist in the Pharmaceutical Industry? Evidence from Chinese Companies
College of Economics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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Abstract
Dissenting from existing multi-industries work, this paper particularly takes the pharmaceutical entities in the Chinese industrial enterprise database as a sample and uses the threshold regression to examine the impact of government R&D subsidies on private R&D investment, patent quantity and new product sales. We find that government R&D subsidies can effectively crowd in private investment. However, due to the crowd-out threshold is too high, the crowd-out effect does not actually exist in the pharmaceutical industry. A similar story happens to new product sales; but for the number of patents, there is only promoting effect.
KeywordsR&D SubsidiesCrowd-Out EffectPharmaceutical IndustryThreshold Regression
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