&D, investors' attention, and scale effects of R&D. We find that while reporting biases and uncertainty decrease analyst coverage … for R&D firms, investors' attention and scale effects of R&D increase analyst coverage. Furthermore, we find that the … positive association between R&D and analyst coverage documented by Barth et al. is fully explained by scale effects of R&D. …

A consensus in the growth literature is that scale effects of R&D are non-existent across mature industrialized … economies. However, the scrutiny across emerging economies is lacklustre at best. The empirical studies of scale effects also … separate but parallel empirical scrutiny of scale effects across the panels of industrialized and emerging countries, clearly …

A consensus in the growth literature is that scale effects of R&D are non-existent across mature industrialized … economies. However, the scrutiny across emerging economies is lacklustre at best. The empirical studies of scale effects also … separate but parallel empirical scrutiny of scale effects across the panels of industrialized and emerging countries, clearly …