Technology and Financial Structure: Are Innovative Firms Different?

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IZA Seminar

Place: Schaumburg-Lippe-Str. 9, 53113 Bonn

Date: 09.12.2003, 12:00 - 13:30

   

Presentation by 

Ioana E. Marinescu (University of Pennsylvania)
   

Abstract:

We use data on publicly traded UK firms to investigate whether financing choices
differ systematically with R&D intensity. As well as looking at a balance sheet
measure of the debt/assets ratio, we also consider the probability of raising finance by
issuing new equity, and the shares of bank debt and secured debt in total debt. We
find a non-linear relationship with the debt/assets ratio: firms that report positive but
low R&D use more debt finance than firms that report no R&D, but the use of debt
finance falls with R&D intensity among those firms that report R&D. We find a
simpler relationship with the probability of issuing new equity: firms that report R&D
are more likely to raise funds by issuing shares than firms that report no R&D, and
this probability increases with R&D intensity. The shares of bank debt and secured
debt in total debt are both lower for firms that report R&D compared to those that do
not, and tend to fall as R&D intensity rises. We discuss possible explanations for
these patterns.

   
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