Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58446 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6217
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We investigate the interdependence of debt financing and R&D activities of young firms. Using micro-level data of the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel, our estimation results show that firm characteristics are more important than personal characteristics of the founders for explaining young firms' leverage, whereas firm characteristics and human capital of both founders and employees heavily influence R&D intensity. Applying a bivariate Tobit model, we find that there is a positive interdependent relationship between the share of loan financing and R&D intensity. A higher share of loan financing allows for more R&D in young firms and, at the same time, a higher R&D intensity allows for a higher loan share. This relationship cannot be detected by merely estimating single-equation models for R&D intensity and debt financing.
Subjects: 
innovation financing
capital structure
business start-ups
KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel
Germany
JEL: 
G32
O32
L26
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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