Aghion, P.; Askenazy, P.; Berman, N.; Cette, G.; Eymard, L. - Banque de France - 2008
We use a French firm-level panel data set over the period 1993-2004 to analyze the relationship between credit constraints and firms' R&D behavior over the business cycle. Our main results can be summarized as follows: (i) the share of R&D investment over total investment is countercyclical...