This paper examines the effects of promotion-based tournament incentives for non-CEO executives on corporate innovation. We find that firms with greater tournament incentives, which are measured as the pay gap between the CEO and other executives, are associated with a higher level of patent...

We examine the effects of that government policy change and assess how it has impacted firm innovation. To address potential endogeneity concerns, we use the policy change as a quasi-natural experiment and explain the exogenously caused variations. We also use a “difference-in-differences”...

Using Hoberg, Phillips and Prabhala's (2014) product market fluidity to capture competitive threats, we find that firms with high product market threats will invest more in R&D and generate higher number of patents and patent citations. In addition, this positive effect of competitive threats on...

More than 1,500 organizations and investors representing over $40 trillion in assets have committed to fossil fuel divestment to combat climate change. Will it work? This chapter explores whether divestment might induce green innovation, a critical component of transitioning to a cleaner...

Analysis of innovation has been fundamentally limited by conventional approaches to broad, structural variables. This paper pushes the boundaries, taking an LLM approach to patent analysis with the groundbreaking ChatGPT technology. OpenAI’s state-of-the-art textual model accesses complex...

This study aims to examine the impact of option incentives on corporate innovations in the representative emerging and transition economy. By utilizing the Chinese dataset, we find a noteworthy positive impact of option incentives on two dimensions of innovation: inputs and outputs. These...

Inventors often experience a low productivity after their company has been subject to a merger or acquisition (M&As). It is of central managerial interest to identify factors facilitating the integration of new inventive staff and thereby counteracting innovation declines after M&As. This paper...

We find a positive relation between mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity of a firm and its subsequent innovation outcome measured by the number and the novelty of the patents the firm obtains. The positive relation between M&A activity and innovation appears at least as significant as that...

Using exogenous variations in the market value of firms' real estate assets caused by fluctuations in local commercial real estate prices, I study how collateral shocks impact corporate innovation. I find evidence that collateral shocks change the quantity, quality, and trajectory of innovation....

Many firms tout their commitment to diversity, sometimes appointing racial minorities to their board of directors. We find that firms with more minority directors are associated with greater innovation output. Using patent-inventor information, we uncover an important yet previously...