Herb, Wolfgang; Lotze, Maria; Schultze, Wolfgang; … - In: Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 64 (2024) 1, pp. 417-473
This paper analyzes the relationship between capitalized Research and Development (R&D) expenditures under IFRS and innovation performance measured by patent data. Under IFRS, development expenditures are capitalized when the success of an R&D investment is highly likely. Hence, such...