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Financial Dependence and Innovation: The Case of Public versus Private Firms / Viral V. Acharya, Zhaoxia Xu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Acharya, Viral V.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w19708.
- NBER working paper series no. w19708
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Financial Dependence and Innovation
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2013.
- Summary:
- This paper examines the relationship between innovation and firms' dependence on external capital by analyzing the innovation activities of privately-held and publicly-traded firms. We find that public firms in external finance dependent industries generate patents of higher quantity, quality, and novelty compared to their private counterparts, while public firms in internal finance dependent industries do not have a significantly better innovation profile than matched private firms. The results are robust to various empirical strategies that address selection bias. The findings suggest that public listing is beneficial to the innovation of firms in industries with a greater need for external capital.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- December 2013.
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