Journal
JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
Volume 83, Issue 1, Pages 223-269Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2005.12.001
Keywords
banks; credit relationships; technological change
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
This paper empirically investigates the effect of informed finance on technological change. The theoretical literature offers conflicting predictions on whether the information of financiers fosters or inhibits firms' innovation. Using data from a sample of Italian manufacturing firms, we find that the information of firms' main banks, proxied by the duration of credit relationships, promotes innovation. This positive effect is economically and statistically more significant for product than for process innovations. Nonetheless, the role of relationship banks in innovation is quite unsophisticated: they do not foster internal research but rather fund the relevant investments that the introduction and acquisition of new technologies entails. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available