{"title":"Policy reinvention and regional innovation performance: from financial, fiscal, tax, and talent policy mix networks","authors":"Yu Zhao, Hongling Guan","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2025.108570","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study discusses central-subnational policy reinvention's impact on regional innovation performance. We employ Large Language Models (LLMs) and network analysis to large-scale data of policy documents, characterizing policy mix of financial and other policies through \"policy instruments-policy targets\" network, and measuring policy reinvention between subnational and central governments. The empirical results demonstrate that policy reinvention significantly enhances regional innovation performance. Mechanism analysis shows that this effect operates primarily through alleviating resource misallocation. Heterogeneity analysis shows that the positive effects of policy reinvention differ by location and are weakened under high fiscal decentralization and fiscal pressure.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 108570"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Finance Research Letters","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1544612325018240","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"BUSINESS, FINANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This study discusses central-subnational policy reinvention's impact on regional innovation performance. We employ Large Language Models (LLMs) and network analysis to large-scale data of policy documents, characterizing policy mix of financial and other policies through "policy instruments-policy targets" network, and measuring policy reinvention between subnational and central governments. The empirical results demonstrate that policy reinvention significantly enhances regional innovation performance. Mechanism analysis shows that this effect operates primarily through alleviating resource misallocation. Heterogeneity analysis shows that the positive effects of policy reinvention differ by location and are weakened under high fiscal decentralization and fiscal pressure.
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