Financial Resource Allocation, Technological Progress and High-Quality Economic Development

Abstract

Along with the changes in China’s development stage and internal and external conditions, sci-tech innovation has become the core driving force for China’s high-quality economic development in the new era. From the perspective of finance-driven technological progress, this paper constructs an endogenous growth DSGE model to analyze the relationship between financial resource allocation, technological progress, and economic growth. This study proves the counter-cyclicality of technological innovation in China, and finds that the allocation of financial resources between enterprises’ productive investment and innovation investment can affect economic growth by changing the scale of factor inputs and technological progress rate, and that there is a see-saw relationship between these two effects, with the latter dominant. On that basis, this paper explains the dynamic transmission mechanism among finance, technology and economy. During the economic expansion period, enterprises expand their production scale, financial resources provide more support to productive investment, with less support to innovation investment, thus the technological progress rate goes down; and during the economic contraction period, enterprises reduce their production scale, financial resources cut support to productive investment and turn to innovation investment, so technological progress rate goes up. The implications of this study on policy are as follows: when faced with new contradictions and challenges in the current development stage, China should get a grip on the new development pattern, seize new opportunities, further deepen financial reforms, optimize the financial resource allocation mechanism, encourage innovation investment, and give full play to the role of equity markets in supporting corporate R&D and innovation. Meanwhile, coupling with prudent and moderate macro-control policies, China should provide a positive macro-environment for corporate innovation, stimulate corporate on innovation demand, promote technological progress, and boost high-quality economic development.

Keywords

financial reform / sci-tech innovation / endogenous growth / DSGE model

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