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How digital finance affects the financial asset allocation of brick-and-mortar businesses

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  • Zhao Lu
  • Wang Zhitao
  • Li Minghuan
  • Deng Yajun
  • Niu Runkai

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The recent integration of digital technology and financial services has given rise to the newly emerging modality of digital finance. However, does digital finance improve the efficiency of financial services while influencing the investment behavior of brick-and-mortar businesses? With the help of the data about Chinese listed companies, this paper uses multiple regression analysis, instrumental variables, and other methods to empirically test whether and how digital finance affects the financial asset allocation decisions of brick-and-mortar enterprises. The findings suggest that digital finance has a galvanizing effect on financial asset allocation. However, this effect mainly stems from the fact that firms allocate more illiquid financial assets and has a dampening effect on liquid financial assets. Path analysis shows that easing financing constraints is a causal pathway through which digital finance dampens firms’ liquid financial asset allocation. Moreover, rising risk exposure levels partially mediate the stimulus of digital finance, motivating firms to allocate illiquid financial assets. This paper contributes to the research on the economic consequences of digital finance and provides policy recommendations on how digital finance can better serve the real economy.

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  • Zhao Lu & Wang Zhitao & Li Minghuan & Deng Yajun & Niu Runkai, 2024. "How digital finance affects the financial asset allocation of brick-and-mortar businesses," Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(1), pages 2341219-234, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:reroxx:v:37:y:2024:i:1:p:2341219
    DOI: 10.1080/1331677X.2024.2341219
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