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We analyze the impact of subsidies on R&D expenditures in the financial crisis and beyond. The financial crisis has led to considerable turmoil in financing and, as a result, to restrictions of firms' access to external financing. Utilizing this fact, we identify and analyze financing...
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This paper investigates the impact of the financial crisis on investment decisions in innovative versus non-innovative firms. Firms are defined as being innovative if they have introduced a new product to the market. The empirical test is based on data for the years before and after the recent...
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innovation activities of their business customers. Individual banks' liquidity shocks are identified by the degree of interbank … total innovation expenditures in comparison to the periods before. Our results imply that those firms which have a business … relation to a bank with higher interbank market reliance reduce their innovation activities during the financial crisis to a …
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This paper tests for the sensitivity of R&D to financing constraints conditional on restrictions in external financing. Financing constraints of firms are identified by an exogenously calculated rating index. Restrictions in external financing are determined by (i) the specific time period...
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at the intensive margin, i.e. our results do not suggest that non-innovative companies are deterred from innovation …
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