Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/130194 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
DICE Discussion Paper No. 219
Publisher: 
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Düsseldorf
Abstract: 
We analyze the relationship between institutional investors, innovation and financing constraints. Building on the empirical framework of Aghion et al. (2013), we find that the effect of institutional ownership on innovation is concentrated in industries with high dependence on external finance and among firms which are a priori likely to be financially constrained. The complementarity between institutional ownership and competition, predicted by the original paper's theory where institutional investors increase innovation through reducing career risks, disappears once this heterogeneity is taken into account. We also provide evidence that the sensitivity of R&D investment to internal funds decreases with institutional ownership.
JEL: 
G23
G32
L25
M10
O31
O34
ISBN: 
978-3-86304-218-9
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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