Using a large sample of North American firms, from 1999 to 2016, we investigate the effect of corporate governance structures, specifically ownership, board characteristics, and executive compensation contracts on innovation intensity and output. We consider both R&D expenditures and patents as...

This paper studies the impact of M&A of Canadian firms by emerging market firms on the stock performance of the acquired firms from 2000 to 2016, using the short-term window event study. We find that the abnormal return of target firms on the event day is 10.3 percent and the cumulative abnormal...