Usually patent data does not contain any unique identifiers for the patenting assignees or the inventors, as the main tasks of patent authorities is the examination of applications and the administration of the patent documents as public contracts and not the support of the empirical analysis of...

We examine the relationship of financial expert CEO on firm innovation. Using CEO individual level and firm-level data across Chinese A-share market from 2008 to 2015, the Poisson model estimation shows that the financial expert CEO has significant negative impact on firm innovation. A financial...