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【IMI Working Paper No. 2202 [EN]】Digital Financial Capabilities and Household Entrepreneurship

发布日期:2022-02-17来源:

Abstract

This study investigates the impact of digital financial capabilities on household business ownership and business innovation. Utilizing China Household Finance Survey 2015 data, this paper constructs robust capabilities scores and finds positive associations between digital financial capabilities and household entrepreneurship. After specifying instrumental variables, the results still hold. In addition, we compare the driving forces of impact through componential dimensions, and discuss the different function channels that digital financial capabilities affect business ownership and business innovation. What’s more, we add in the interaction term of digital capability and financial capability, illustrate its role in improving the goodness of fit of the models, and further discuss the interaction effect both generally and at each level of the capabilities scores. Finally, we conduct robustness check across socioeconomic groups and provide policy implications. This study highlights the different driving forces of digital financial capabilities concerning different entrepreneurial activities, as well as the importance of interaction effect in understanding how digital financial capabilities affect household entrepreneurship.

【Keywords】

digital capability; financial capability; household entrepreneurship; business ownership; business innovation

【Authors】

Luo Yu, IMI Research Fellow, School of Finance, Renmin University of China

Zeng Lianyun, School of Finance, Renmin University of China


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