A Model of R&D Capitalization

Gamal Atallah and Massoud Khazabi ()

International Journal of Business and Economics, 2005, vol. 4, issue 2, 107-121

Abstract: This paper studies the decision of firms to expense or capitalize R&D expenditures. The firm has an incentive to mismatch the benefits and costs of R&D, expensing a larger portion of R&D when the benefits occur in the long-run and capitalizing a larger portion when the benefits occur in the short-run. There is strategic substitutability between R&D investments and expensing. Accounting standards, market evaluation of capitalization, and firms¡¦ accounting policies can have real effects on innovation.

Keywords: R&D; innovation; expensing; capitalization; accounting standards (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L21 M41 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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