We review the recent literature on the financing of innovation, inclusive of large companies
and new start-ups. This research strand has been very active over the past five years …

Technological innovation is critical to a country's economic development and a firm's long-
term success. This article reviews the recent literature that links institutions and innovation …

Corporate innovation is an increasingly important topic that has attracted great attention from
academic researchers in financial economics in recent years. Although the top three finance …

We examine the effect of social trust on corporate innovation. We find a positive relation
between social trust and corporate innovation. This association survives a series of …

The recognized importance of innovation for long-run economic growth has raised scholars'
interest in the mechanisms explaining regional innovative performance. In particular …

Using the NOx budget program (NBP) as a quasi-natural experiment, we study how air
quality affects the productivity of patent inventors. Motivated by previous studies linking air …

Firms' innovative activities can be sensitive to public policies that affect the availability of
capital. In this paper, we investigate the effects of regional and temporal variation in US …

We exploit state-level changes in the amount of personal wealth individuals can protect
under Chapter 7 to analyze the effect of debtor protection on the financing structure and …

We investigate whether social trust improves corporate innovation. Based on a
comprehensive firm-level panel dataset of patents filed by companies from 43 countries over …

Purpose This study examines whether a firm's management earnings forecasts affect its
technical innovation activities. Our study also examines whether the cost of debt plays a …