We examine the problem of license contracts in vertically separated markets in which the inventor and the manufacturer bargain over royalties in the presence of probabilistic patents and penalty upon infringement. We show that an excessive protection of patent rights can rather delay the...

I construct a new proxy for Tobin's q that incorporates the replacement cost of patent capital. This proxy, PI (physical plus intangible) q, explains up to 62% more variation in investment than other proxies for q. Furthermore, investment is more sensitive to PI q than to other proxies for q....

Consistent with the uncertainty of research and development's future benefits, prior accounting studies hypothesize and find a positive relation between research and development (Ramp;D) and the variability of future earnings. However, prior research has assumed constant marginal productivity of...

We analyze the impact of decreases in available lending resources on quantitative and qualitative dimensions of firms' patenting activities. We thereby make use of the European Banking Authority?s capital exercise to carve out the causal effect of bank lending on firm innovation. In order to do...

Patents valuation methods are mostly income or income-market-based. In these methods one of the key estimate is the cost of capital. The paper analyses the question of the patents cost of capital from two complementary viewpoints: (i) theoretical aspects of estimating the cost of capital for...

Using the real options game approach, we analyze the two-stage preemptive patent-investment race between an incumbent and a challenger (new entrant) in a product market with profit flow uncertainty. The challenger can gain entry into the monopolized product market dominated by the incumbent by...

We investigate how intangible capital in form of intellectual property, such as patents, might mitigate financing constraints. While scholars have already argued that patents might have a signalling value reducing information asymmetries between borrowers and lenders, we quantify the value of...

Why do firms purchase technology instead of developing it internally? This paper studies two main motives behind technology-driven acquisitions: synergies and competition. We argue that the key determinant for the firm's choice of organic growth or acquisition of innovation is its profit shock...

In the recent wake of the Sustainable Development Goals introduced by the United Nations, the topic of green innovation has achieved much attention. This study aims to explore the impact of green innovation on trade credit activities. The empirical analysis was conducted by sampling ten years of...

We analyze, theoretically and empirically, the implications of salience on innovation announcements in the biopharmaceutical industry. We hypothesize that equity market investors are more likely to pay attention to an innovation announcement that is more salient: thus, investors pay more...