Young Innovative Firms, Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivities and Technological Misallocation
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Can a bad technological allocation generate financial friction? We built a theory model with verifiable implications, in which the poor distribution between Randamp;D and production The activity of the banks generates debt limitations. The investor offers the innovator a rent that is contingent on the success of your project in order to make you exercise a level of effort compatible with the incentives. However, this rent distorts the allocation of effort between activities. Specifically, it leads to a sub-optimal level of effort by driving a reallocation of resources from production to Randamp;D. Consequently, the investor may not to appropriate the surplus resulting from the innovation. This distortion increases the cost of external financing for companies that have a large volume of intangible assets. Using Compustat manufacturing company data in the United States between 1982 and 2007, we have show that cash flow sensitivity is positive and increasing in companies with a high level of Randamp;D intensities.
Can technological misallocation generate financial frictions? We build a theoretical model with testable implications, in which the misallocation between Randamp;D and production activities generates borrowing constraints. The investor offers the innovator a rent that is contingent to the success of its project in order to make them exert an incentive-compatible effort level. However, this rent distorts the allocation of effort between activities. Specifically, it leads to a suboptimal level of effort impulsing a reallocation of resources from production to Randamp;D. Consequently, the investor cannot appropriate the surplus resulting from innovation. This distortion increases the cost of external financing for firms that have large amount of intangible assets. Using Compustat data for manufacturing firms in the United States between 1982 and 2007, we show that cash-flow sensitivities are positive and increasing in firms with high Randamp;D intensities Suggested Citation
