Limits-to-arbitrage, investment frictions, and innovation anomalies

Konan Chan, Yueh-Hsiang Lin and Yanzhi Wang

Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2017, vol. 43, issue C, 1-14

Abstract: This paper examines whether the limits-to-arbitrage and investment frictions hypotheses explain the research and development (R&D) premium. We find that the R&D premium is stronger for stocks that are hard to arbitrage and for stocks with investment frictions. The limits-to-arbitrage explanation explains more of the R&D premium than does the investment frictions explanation. Our results hold under the two-way sorts on limits-to-arbitrage and investment frictions measures. We also examine the impact of limits-to-arbitrage and investment frictions on innovation efficiency and R&D ability. We find that the limits-to-arbitrage and investment frictions are equally effective in explaining the two new innovation anomalies.

Keywords: R&D premium; Limits-to-arbitrage; Investment frictions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2017.01.001

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