Bertoni, Fabio; Nadant, Anne-Laure Le; Perdreau, Frédéric - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 2, pp. 856-864
We study innovation and R&D investments made from 2008 to 2010 by UK companies that were the targets of leveraged buyout (LBO) in previous years. We find that overall, LBO companies do not exhibit lower innovation and R&D investments than non-LBO companies during the crisis, with other things...