{"title":"Does a firm's intelligent technological transformation matter for its access to financial resources?","authors":"Kuo Zhou , Zhi Qu , Yiman Guo , Runnian Hu","doi":"10.1016/j.econmod.2025.107100","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We investigate the impact of firms' intelligent technological transformation on their access to financial resources. The existing literature has mostly focused on the effect of external finance on firms' entrepreneurship, productivity, and artificial intelligence; however, research assessing how intelligent technological transformation affects their access to financial resources remains limited. Using China's Smart Manufacturing Pilot Program since 2015, we employ the difference-in-differences model to examine the beneficial effect of intelligent technological transformation on access to bank loans. The findings and results of the channel analysis reveal that firms with intelligent technological transformation have more reputation, strong competitive capabilities, and better access to bank loans.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48419,"journal":{"name":"Economic Modelling","volume":"149 ","pages":"Article 107100"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2000,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Economic Modelling","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264999325000951","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ECONOMICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We investigate the impact of firms' intelligent technological transformation on their access to financial resources. The existing literature has mostly focused on the effect of external finance on firms' entrepreneurship, productivity, and artificial intelligence; however, research assessing how intelligent technological transformation affects their access to financial resources remains limited. Using China's Smart Manufacturing Pilot Program since 2015, we employ the difference-in-differences model to examine the beneficial effect of intelligent technological transformation on access to bank loans. The findings and results of the channel analysis reveal that firms with intelligent technological transformation have more reputation, strong competitive capabilities, and better access to bank loans.
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Economic Modelling fills a major gap in the economics literature, providing a single source of both theoretical and applied papers on economic modelling. The journal prime objective is to provide an international review of the state-of-the-art in economic modelling. Economic Modelling publishes the complete versions of many large-scale models of industrially advanced economies which have been developed for policy analysis. Examples are the Bank of England Model and the US Federal Reserve Board Model which had hitherto been unpublished. As individual models are revised and updated, the journal publishes subsequent papers dealing with these revisions, so keeping its readers as up to date as possible.