The impact of the centralized volume-based procurement policy on Chinese pharmaceutical manufacturing firms’ R&D investment: A difference-in-differences approach

• Fangjun Qiu,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

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• Shouming Chen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2050-7565

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• Yujia Li ,

  Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lyj@tongji.edu.cn (YL); 2030434@tongji.edu.cn (XW)

  Affiliation School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8346-2598

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• Xianjing Wang ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: lyj@tongji.edu.cn (YL); 2030434@tongji.edu.cn (XW)

  Affiliation School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

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• Mengfei Zhu

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

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