Does the Stock Market Boost Firm Innovation?

Download or read book Does the Stock Market Boost Firm Innovation? written by Hui He and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper analyses the effect of the stock market on firm innovation through the lens of initial public offering (IPO) using uniquely matched Chinese firm-level data. We find that IPOs lead to an increase in both the quantity and quality of firm innovation activity. In addition, IPOs expand a firm’s scope of innovation beyond its core business. The impact of IPOs on firm innovation varies across financial constraints, corporate governance, and ownership structures. Our results further illustrate that IPOs induce a firm to increase the number of inventors and enable better retention of existing inventors after the IPO. Finally, we show that the enhanced innovation activity resulting from IPOs increases a firm’s Tobin’s Q in the long run.