The aim of this paper is to study the influence of CEOs' overconfidence on corporate R&D. We analyze a sample of 766 firms from the UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands between 2008 and 2013. We use three measures of managerial overconfidence: the press coverage of...

This paper analyzes the presence of financial constraints for investment in innovation in Brazil. Dynamic investment models are estimated for a panel dataset of 206 Brazilian nonfinancial firms in the period 1995-2006. Results show that innovation of Brazilian firms is subject to financial...