Political connections, government subsidies and firm financial performance: Evidence from renewable energy manufacturing in China

Renewable Energy

Volumn 63, Issue , 2014, Pages 330-336

  Zhang, Huiming ^a   Li, Lianshui ^a   Zhou, Dequn ^b   Zhou, Peng ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Firm financial performance; Panel data model; Political connection; Renewable energy manufacturing; Subsidy

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE; PANEL DATA MODELS; POLITICAL CONNECTIONS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SUBSIDY;

FINANCE; MANUFACTURE; MODELS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOLAR ENERGY; WIND POWER; DECISION MAKING;

INDUSTRY; MANUFACTURE;

DATA SET; DECISION MAKING; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; MANUFACTURING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOLAR POWER; STATE ROLE; SUBSIDY SYSTEM; WIND POWER; ENERGY RESOURCE; PANEL DATA; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION;

CHINA;

EID: 84885916852     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2013.09.029     Document Type: Article

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