Directors and Officers Liability Insurance and High-Quality Development of Enterprises: From the Perspective of Agency Cost and Innovation Incentive.

High-quality economic development can be achieved if a major strategic direction for China are delivered from the macro level to the micro level. Taking A-listed enterprises in China from 2005 to 2018 as samples, this paper studies the impact of directors and officers liability insurance (D&O insurance) on the highquality enterprise development. The research results show that D&O insurance can promote high-quality development. In addition, the mechanism test shows that D&O insurance can reduce agency costs and improve innovations and high-quality enterprise development. Further analysis shows that when stateowned enterprises including their internal controls has no major defects, D&O insurance has more significant positive impact. Thus, this paper suggests that the insurance should be promoted for realizing high-quality enterprise development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]