Are export tax rebates patronage for Chinese firms? An analysis of productivity |
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Institution: | 1. School of Securities and Futures, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, No.55 Guanghuacun Street, Chengdu, Sichuan 610074, China;2. School of Economics, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, No.55 Guanghuacun Street, Chengdu, Sichuan 610074, China;3. Business School at Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610064, China |
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Abstract: | This paper examines the nexus between export tax rebates and productivity using Chinese firm-level data from 2000 to 2007. The empirical findings indicate that a one percentage point decrease in export tax rebate rates increases the total factor productivity (TFP) of a firm by about 0.1 percentage points. We explore the possible mechanisms that explain this nexus and attribute it to the allocation effect of export tax rebate policy; that is, export tax rebates prevent low-productivity firms from exiting the market and further reallocate resources and economic activities to them. In addition, a decrease in rebate rates significantly encourages the TFP growth of surviving firms and leads to an increase in aggregate TFP. Specifically, throughout 2000–07, the declining rebate rates accounted for 5.23% of the rise in the aggregate TFP, and the between-firm effect was 3.85%, which is much larger than the within effect. |
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