Fiscal institutional reform and export product quality: A Quasi-experimental research on counties managed directly by provinces

Sui, Hongguang; Geng, Shaoqing; Zhou, Jie; Raza, Ali; Aziz, Noshaba

doi:10.1016/j.econmod.2023.106383

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“…Therefore, it should create a favorable innovation environment, increase the investment in R&D, improve the efficiency of R&D, and promote the technology level. For example, by reforming the fiscal system, strengthening the fiscal power of the province-level government, providing more precise policies and financial assistance to enterprises, adapting to local conditions, and stimulating the vitality and competitiveness of export trade [46]. Small and medium-sized enterprises occupy a large proportion of China's forest production enterprises.…”

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Export Growth and Quality Determination of Wood Forest Products: Evidence from China

Wan,

Ban,

et al. 2023

Forests

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The rapid-developed scale of China’s trade in wood forest products has undergone a considerable uptick. Concomitant with the evolution of high-quality development paradigms, product quality within trade frameworks has gained escalating scrutiny. Based on the statistical analysis of the export characteristics of China’s wood forest products, this study leverages BACI data spanning from 1998 to 2017. Utilizing regression-based inverse methods, the study quantifies the quality attributes of these export products, dissects fluctuations in quality, and places particular emphasis on the markets within “Belt and Road Initiative” economies to elucidate dynamic trends and spatial distribution characteristics of export quality in this geoeconomic domain. Based on this, the fixed effect model, random effect model, and system GMM are used to empirically examine the influencing factors of China’s wood forest product export quality. This study found that wood-based panel products have the highest quality, followed by paper products and wood furniture among the three major categories of wood forest products. Besides, the overall quality levels of the three products exported to countries participating in the Belt and Road initiative haven’t significantly changed, while notable changes are evident across divergent export destination markets. In addition, an empirical study on the influencing factors of the export product quality of wood forest products is conducted, which indicates that total factor productivity, R&D investment, capital intensity, labor costs, and foreign direct investment are influencing factors. Finally, based on the research conclusions, suggestions are provided on how to improve the export quality of wood forest products.

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Export Growth and Quality Determination of Wood Forest Products: Evidence from China

Wan,

Ban,

et al. 2023

Forests

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“…This could stem from disparities in the relationships between the government and enterprises, as well as the distinct extent of tax efforts, enabling SOEs to access a greater allocation of resources from the government under less management. Previous studies have found that stateowned enterprises possess ample financing channels and economic resources advantages, they may have closer ties to local governments and receive lower tax regulations and higher subsidies [30,67].…”

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“…Numerous studies have explored the contributions of up-gradation of exports and export quality [21][22][23], which attracts extensive discussions on the factors and measures of export product quality [24][25][26][27][28]. A few studies have started to uncover the specific impact of certain tax reforms or fiscal policies on firms' R&D inputs, production factor prices, and credit constraints, thereby influencing the export product quality [13,[29][30][31]. For instance, Sui et al explore the quality effect of counties-managed-directly-by-provinces reform using the DID method [30].…”

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“…A few studies have started to uncover the specific impact of certain tax reforms or fiscal policies on firms' R&D inputs, production factor prices, and credit constraints, thereby influencing the export product quality [13,[29][30][31]. For instance, Sui et al explore the quality effect of counties-managed-directly-by-provinces reform using the DID method [30]. Zhang found a quality-enhancing effect of government subsidies [32].…”

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Does Tax Sharing Matter for Export Quality Upgrading? Evidence from China

Zhang,

Guo,

2024

Sustainability

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Tax policy is critical for business operations and export decisions. However, the relationship between tax sharing and export has been less frequently discussed. This paper explicitly examines the underexplored tax-sharing system’s effect on manufacturing exporters’ export quality and develops four hypotheses. We use data on Chinese manufacturing exporters and prefecture-level tax-sharing from 2008 to 2013 and employ an instrumental variable approach to alleviate the endogeneity problem. The empirical evidence supports our hypotheses. We find that an increase in the prefecture-level government tax-sharing ratio significantly reduces export product quality of firms. This quality effect can occur through channels, including tax burden effect, production scale effect, and innovation effect. Moreover, more productive firms and those operated in cities with stronger intellectual property protection can face a smaller quality-reducing effect. Our findings offer policy implications for improving China’s modernized tax system and trade upgrading. Policymakers should recalibrate the tax-sharing system to reduce the tax burden on manufacturing exporters, particularly for innovative and high-productivity firms, and bolster intellectual property rights to enhance export quality and support China’s trade and economic modernization.

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Industrial policy and potential for export upgrading: Evidence from government-approved projects in China

Ding,

Zhuang,

Zhang

et al. 2024

Economic Modelling

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Fiscal institutional reform and export product quality: A Quasi-experimental research on counties managed directly by provinces

Cited by 6 publications

References 27 publications

Export Growth and Quality Determination of Wood Forest Products: Evidence from China

Export Growth and Quality Determination of Wood Forest Products: Evidence from China

Does Tax Sharing Matter for Export Quality Upgrading? Evidence from China

Industrial policy and potential for export upgrading: Evidence from government-approved projects in China

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