Financial constraints and innovation: Why poor countries don't catchup

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Monika Schnitzer ()

Discussion Paper Series of SFB/TR 15 Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems from Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Bonn, University of Mannheim, University of Munich

Abstract: We examine micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm-specific financial constraints. We find that financial constraints restraint heability of domestically owned firms to innovate and export and hence to catch up to the technological frontiers. This negative effect is amplified as financial constraints force export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements.

Keywords: innovation; productivity; financial constraint; export; technology frontier; BEEPS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 G3 O16 O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-06
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Journal Article: FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS AND INNOVATION: WHY POOR COUNTRIES DON'T CATCH UP (2013)
Working Paper: Financial constraints and innovation: Why poor countries don't catch up (2013)
Working Paper: Financial constraints and innovation: Why poor countries don't catch up (2010)
Working Paper: Financial Constraints and Innovation: Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up (2010)
Working Paper: Financial constraints and innovation: Why poor countries don't catch up (2010)
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