Based on an original data set with information of a representative portfolio of among the largest 304 Research and Development (R&D) investing companies over the 20032006 period, the overall analysis, except in a few cases, gives some robust evidence of a positive relationship between top...

We use unique institutional securities holdings data to examine the trading behaviour of delegated institutional capital and its impact on bond risk premia. We show that institutional fund managers trade strongly procyclically: they actively move into higher yielding, longer duration and lower...

This study examines serial correlation in employment, sales and innovative sales growth rates in a balanced panel of 3,300 Spanish firms over the years 2002-2009, obtained by matching different waves of the Spanish Encuesta sobre Innovacion en las Empresas, the Spanish innovation survey...