Credit Supply and Corporate Innovation
57 Pages
Posted: 15 Mar 2012
Last revised: 2 Oct 2015
Bocconi University
Copenhagen Business School - Department of Economics
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Finance
Date Written: March 31, 2013
Abstract
We present evidence that banking development plays a key role in technological progress. We focus on manufacturing firms’ innovative performance, measured by patent-based metrics, and employ exogenous variations in banking development arising from the staggered deregulation of banking activities across US states during the 1980s and 1990s. We find that interstate banking deregulation had significant beneficial effects on the quantity and quality of innovation activities, especially for firms highly dependent on external capital and located closer to entering banks. Furthermore, we find that these results are strongly driven by a greater ability of deregulated banks to geographically diversify credit risk.
Keywords: financial development, banking deregulation, innovation, risk diversification
JEL Classification: G21, G32, O31
Suggested Citation:
Suggested Citation
Amore, Mario Daniele and Schneider, Cédric and Zaldokas, Alminas, Credit Supply and Corporate Innovation (March 31, 2013). Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2022235 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2022235
