Fiscal Decentralization and Enterprise Innovation in China, 2015-2023

Jie Tu's dataset provides descriptive statistics for a study on fiscal decentralization's impact on enterprise technological innovation. The data covers A-share listed companies in China from 2015 to 2023, analyzing effects within a central-local-enterprise framework. It was last updated on 2026-04-15 and is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling the impact of fiscal decentralization on innovation based on the described principal-agent framework.
• Analyzing property-right heterogeneity in innovation outcomes between state-owned and private enterprises.
• Investigating the mediating role of local government innovation preference on enterprise behavior.

Strengths

• Covers a 9-year time range from 2015 to 2023.
• Focuses on A-share listed companies, a defined and significant economic segment.
• Dataset is small (5.5 KB), facilitating quick inspection and download.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description is focused on study findings rather than detailed data composition.

Provenance

Source

Jie Tu via figshare.

Collection Method

Likely compiled from annual financial reports of A-share listed companies.

Time Range

2015 to 2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-15 18:04:44; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China (implied by focus on A-share listed companies)