基地研究员任晓航副教授合作论文“Can government procurement improve capacity utilization in enterprises? Evidence from China”在重要学术期刊Applied Economics发表。

Applied Economics聚焦公共政策与商业实践中的经济问题分析，强调采用定量方法和实证研究推动经济理论与实践的衔接，在JCR经济学领域位列Q2分区。

摘要：The ability of government procurement (GP) to influence capacity utilization (CU) is an issue that needs to be studied to resolve overcapacity. Therefore, we investigate the impact and mechanisms of GP on CU of enterprises by utilizing data from Chinese listed companies’ and GP contracts from 2015 to 2022. Our findings indicate that GP significantly enhances CU, with a more pronounced effect observed in private enterprises, capital-intensive firms, highly competitive industries, and the eastern region. Mechanism analysis reveals that GP improves CU by mitigating supply-demand deviations, reducing uncertainty perception on the consumption side, suppressing inefficient investment, and stimulating technological innovation on the production side. Further analysis demonstrates the synergies between GP and government subsidies vary significantly across different CU levels. Additionally, GP effectively boosts enterprise economic performance. This paper significantly enhances the comprehension of demand-side policies’ impact but also offers a practical and efficient policy approach to tackling China’s overcapacity challenges.

关键词：Government procurement；capacity utilization；policy synergies；economic performance

论文链接：https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2025.2464824

教师简介

任晓航，中南大学商学院特聘副教授，Elsevier中国高被引学者，全球前2%顶尖科学家，主要从事能源金融、金融风险、金融计量等方面的研究，在Journal of the American Statistical Association、Transportation Research Part A、Energy Economics、Quantitative Finance、Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting、International Review of Financial Analysis、Technological Forecasting and Social Change、Business Strategy and the Environment、Pacific-Basin Finance Journal、Applied Energy、Resources Policy、Renewable & Sustainable Energy Review、Energy、管理科学学报（英文版）、系统工程理论与实践、中国管理科学等国内外权威期刊上发表论文一百余篇，其中ESI热点文章/高被引论文三十余篇。担任Sustainable Communities(Taylor & Francis)领域主编，Humanities & Social Sciences Communications（Nature旗下唯一面向人文社会科学的子刊）等期刊副主编，Climate Change Economics, Economic Change and Restructuring等SSCI期刊客座主编。