Entrepreneurs undertake more R&D when financiers are better informed about their projects because they expect to receive more funding should those projects prove successful.Financiers learn more about projects when entrepreneurs perform more R&D because then the opportunity cost of misinvesting...

Exploiting a 20-year sample of leveraged buyouts matched to French administrative data, we document that target firms post-buyout experience reduced within-firm wage inequality together with increased profitability relative to control firms. Pay gaps between men and women, managers and...