Consistent with theoretical models that show disclosure can reduce uncertain investments, we find that mandating risk disclosure is negatively associated with corporate innovation. Using a textual analysis of a large sample of 10-K filings for US firms, we identify a negative relationship...

Empirical research on the consequences of the use of the balanced scorecard (BSC) has mostly been conducted in large firms. Previous findings are not easily applied to the small business literature, and assumptions about the benefits of BSC for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are not...

We investigate the effect of patent disclosures on corporate innovation. Using the American Inventor's Protection Act (AIPA) as a shock that increased patent disclosures, we find an increase in innovation for firms whose rivals reveal more information after the AIPA and a decrease in innovation...

This paper documents that underpriced firms substitute R&D spending with share buybacks to the detriment of innovation. To identify underpriced firms, I introduce a novel measure of non-fundamental price pressure induced by indirect exposure to industry-level shocks. This measure addresses...

We aim to tackle the longstanding debate on whether stock liquidity enhances or impedes firm innovation in this paper. This topic is of particular interest to firm stakeholders and regulators, because innovation is crucial for firm and national level competitiveness and stock liquidity can be...

Firms winning the R&D 100 Award, a prestigious award for technology breakthroughs in product inventions, provide significantly higher subsequent stock returns. We hypothesize that such return predictability stems from the awarded firms' access to high-end markets in segmented markets. We develop...

We find that small innovators earn higher returns than small non-innovators for up to five years. We find no such innovation premium among large firms. A battery of tests shows that this innovation premium among small firms is explained by risk. Our findings, which are based on a simple measure...

We analyze 7.7 million patents via textual analysis to develop a novel patent-to-patent measure of innovation similarity among firms. With this measure, we investigate whether stock price movements reveal information about firms' technological connectedness. We find that investors impound...

This paper studies the asset pricing implications of technology spillover, an important externality in innovation. While technology spillover enables firms to produce a variety of products that better satisfy their customers' love for variety, such benefits are procyclical, and investors...

By constructing high-frequency measures of informed trading and news about technological competition, we provide evidence that the news about a firm's disadvantage in competition leads to informed selling. Such a pattern is weaker among firms in the industries with faster technology obsolescence...