We analyze how corporate venture capitalists (CVCs) differ from independent venture capitalists (IVCs) in nurturing innovation in entrepreneurial firms. Using the NBER Patent Citation database, we find that CVCs help their portfolio firms achieve a higher degree of innovation productivity, as...

Motivated by the ethical dilemma in managerial financial reporting decisions, we explore and reveal an unintended "crash" consequence following accelerated patenting information dissemination. Employing the American Inventor’s Protection Act (AIPA) that accelerated the publication of patent...

We examine whether short sellers exacerbate or mitigate managerial myopia by using a firm's patenting activities to capture managers' myopic behavior. To establish causality, we use exogenous variation in short-selling costs generated by a quasi-natural experiment, Regulation SHO, which removes...