In this paper, we first derive a theoretical model in which bank loans rates are assumed to be determined by the cost of loans (re)financing. We consider that imperfect competition prevails on the credit market and that banks determine the (re-)financing structure of the loans they grant by...

Using a panel of more than 3,100 French corporate groups' affiliates and parent companies, we estimate a production function model where we enable the productivity of a firm to depend on the knowledge produced by the R&D activities of the other companies in the group. We find indeed that a...