We examine how financial market development affects technological innovation. Using a large data set that includes 32 developed and emerging countries and a fixed effects identification strategy, we identify economic mechanisms through which the development of equity markets and credit markets...

We investigate the real effects of foreign exchange (FX) uncertainty on an important economic growth engine-technological innovation. In a sample consisting of 55 countries, we measure FX uncertainty using the unexpected FX volatility and then show that heightened FX uncertainty is associated...

We carry out a large-scale investigation of the out-of-sample profitability of in-sample profitable carry trade strategies, using foreign exchange data for 48 countries spanning a period from 1983 to 2015 and employing reality check and stepwise tests to correct for data-snooping bias (the...

Firms with higher R&D intensity subsequently experience higher stock returns in international stock markets, highlighting the role of intangible investments in international asset pricing. The R&D effect is stronger in countries where growth option risk is more likely priced, but is unrelated to...

We propose that general purpose technologies (GPTs) — a class of technologies that have pervasive impacts on the economy and spill over across countries — are a source of non-diversifiable technology risk in international stock markets. We construct an empirical GPT factor from patent data...