Microeconometric Evidence of Financing Frictions and Innovative Activity

Amaresh K. Tiwari, Pierre Mohnen, Franz Palm and Sybrand Schim van der Loeff

No 4645, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: Using Dutch data we empirically investigate how financing and innovation vary across firm characteristics. We find that when firms face financial constraints, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics, and R&D slows down. In the absence of financial constraints, however, as they raise debt, firms become less inclined to innovate and the change in the propensity to innovate no longer varies with firm characteristics. We find that financing constraints faced, propensity to innovate, and R&D intensity are not uniform across firm characteristics. A new “control function” estimator to account for heterogeneity and endogeneity has been developed.

Keywords: innovation; R&D; capital structure; financial constraints; firm characteristics; correlated random effects; control function; expected a posteriori (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C30 G30 O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Working Paper: Microeconometric Evidence of Financing Frictions and Innovative Activity (2012)
Working Paper: Microeconometric evidence of financing frictions and innovative activity (2012)
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