innovative output as measured by patents, controlling for endogeneity of contract form. The results are consistent with multi …

Evidence on the "funding gap" for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for …

This paper examines the relationship between innovation and firms' dependence on external capital by analyzing the … innovation activities of privately-held and publicly-traded firms. We find that public firms in external finance dependent … in internal finance dependent industries do not have a significantly better innovation profile than matched private firms …

We review the recent literature on the financing of innovation, inclusive of large companies and new startups. This … related to innovation. We highlight the new literature on learning and experimentation across multi-stage innovation projects … innovation and changing external conditions, especially reduced experimentation costs …

the sequence of events is as follows. In a period, t, the supplier offers a contract to the retailer, and the retailer … excess inventory (we assume a lost sales model) to the next period. In period t 1, the supplier designs a new contract based … certain assumptions, we characterize and evaluate the supplier's optimal contract. To do so, we cast our problem as an adverse …