Using novel data on European firms, this paper examines the effect of business group affiliation on innovation. We find … that business groups foster the scale and novelty of corporate innovation. Group affiliation is particularly important in … industries that rely more on external finance and have a higher degree of information asymmetry. We also find that the innovation …

effect which becomes more pronounced when we account for the endogeneity of innovation. This is the case for three different … count measures of innovation - a global measure of innovation and measures for labour innovations and capital innovations …

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …

innovation. Unlike previous literature based on survey data, we exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the .revealed …