How Does Fintech Development Affect Financing Constraints of Smes? Evidence From China
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an indispensable role in China’s economy through making huge contributions to GDP, national employment, financial innovation and government taxation. However, SMEs in China have long faced financing constraints due to their inherent problems, such as fi...
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| description | Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an indispensable role in China’s economy through making huge contributions to GDP, national employment, financial innovation and government taxation. However, SMEs in China have long faced financing constraints due to their inherent problems, such as financial information asymmetry, immature governance mechanisms, and lack of collateral under the traditional financial system, which have hindered their long-term development. In recent years, financial technology (Fintech) has entered a rapid development track, especially in China, providing new ideas and methods for solving the financing difficulties of SMEs from a technical perspective. In order to examine this, this paper measures the degree of financing constraints through the cash flow sensitivity of cash model and explores how the Fintech development affects financing constraints of SMEs in China and how this impact further communicated to the performance and the risks of SMEs by adopting two-way fixed effects models. The results show that Fintech could alleviate the financing constraints of SMEs. Furthermore, the mediating role of ownership is identified, presenting a better mitigating effect of Fintech on the financing constraints for private SMEs. In addition, both the performance and the risks of SMEs showed the upward single-sided U-shaped relationship with the increase of the Fintech development index, which indicates that Fintech could amplify performance while magnifying the risks of SMEs. The findings of this paper offer an important implication for China that regulatory authorities should consider and balance the financing constraint mitigation effect and risk amplification effect of Fintech. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c42f70cb10c848979267b5cdeaeeda342025-01-02T05:58:42ZengSciendoECONOMICS2303-50132024-12-0112313210.2478/eoik-2024-0031How Does Fintech Development Affect Financing Constraints of Smes? Evidence From ChinaYang Jian0Zhang Yawen1Gong Jinguo2Liu Tong31University of Edinburgh, Business School, UK2Hangzhou Xingyu Enterprise Management Consulting Co., Ltd., China2Hangzhou Xingyu Enterprise Management Consulting Co., Ltd., China3Technical University of Munich, GermanySmall and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an indispensable role in China’s economy through making huge contributions to GDP, national employment, financial innovation and government taxation. However, SMEs in China have long faced financing constraints due to their inherent problems, such as financial information asymmetry, immature governance mechanisms, and lack of collateral under the traditional financial system, which have hindered their long-term development. In recent years, financial technology (Fintech) has entered a rapid development track, especially in China, providing new ideas and methods for solving the financing difficulties of SMEs from a technical perspective. In order to examine this, this paper measures the degree of financing constraints through the cash flow sensitivity of cash model and explores how the Fintech development affects financing constraints of SMEs in China and how this impact further communicated to the performance and the risks of SMEs by adopting two-way fixed effects models. The results show that Fintech could alleviate the financing constraints of SMEs. Furthermore, the mediating role of ownership is identified, presenting a better mitigating effect of Fintech on the financing constraints for private SMEs. In addition, both the performance and the risks of SMEs showed the upward single-sided U-shaped relationship with the increase of the Fintech development index, which indicates that Fintech could amplify performance while magnifying the risks of SMEs. The findings of this paper offer an important implication for China that regulatory authorities should consider and balance the financing constraint mitigation effect and risk amplification effect of Fintech.https://doi.org/10.2478/eoik-2024-0031fintechfinancing constraintstwo-way fe modelcash flow sensitivity of cash modelc10d22g21m20 |
| spellingShingle | Yang Jian Zhang Yawen Gong Jinguo Liu Tong How Does Fintech Development Affect Financing Constraints of Smes? Evidence From China ECONOMICS fintech financing constraints two-way fe model cash flow sensitivity of cash model c10 d22 g21 m20 |
| title | How Does Fintech Development Affect Financing Constraints of Smes? Evidence From China |
| title_full | How Does Fintech Development Affect Financing Constraints of Smes? Evidence From China |
| title_fullStr | How Does Fintech Development Affect Financing Constraints of Smes? Evidence From China |
| title_full_unstemmed | How Does Fintech Development Affect Financing Constraints of Smes? Evidence From China |
| title_short | How Does Fintech Development Affect Financing Constraints of Smes? Evidence From China |
| title_sort | how does fintech development affect financing constraints of smes evidence from china |
| topic | fintech financing constraints two-way fe model cash flow sensitivity of cash model c10 d22 g21 m20 |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/eoik-2024-0031 |
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