Firm R&D and Financial Analysis: How Do They Interact?

60 Pages Posted: 25 Jul 2016

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Jim Goldman

University of Warwick - Warwick Business School

Joel Peress

INSEAD - Finance

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Date Written: July 25, 2016

Abstract

Entrepreneurs undertake more R&D when financiers are better informed about their projects because they expect to receive more funding should those projects prove successful.

Financiers learn more about projects when entrepreneurs perform more R&D because then the opportunity cost of misinvesting is higher. Results from two quasi-natural experiments are consistent with this interaction between R&D and learning.

Investors’ learning accounts for a third of the total effect of a policy that stimulates R&D; and a calibration suggests that the R&D-learning interaction’s contribution to income growth represents a third of the total contributions of R&D and learning.

Keywords: Financial Development, Growth, Technological Progress, Innovation, Capital Allocation, Learning

JEL Classification: G20, O31, O4

Suggested Citation

Goldman, Jim and Peress, Joel, Firm R&D and Financial Analysis: How Do They Interact? (July 25, 2016). INSEAD Working Paper No. 2016/53/FIN, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2814011 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2814011

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