three essays in financial markets - the bright side of financial derivatives: options trading and firm innovation
- Author: Ivan Blanco / David Wehrheim
- ISBN: 978-84-8102-877-5
- EAN: 9788481028775
- Editorial: UNIVERSIDAD DE CANTABRIA
- Collection: DIFUNDE
- Language: English
- Edizio urtea: 2019
- Format: RUSTIKA
- Page count: 86
- Size: 240x170x10
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Synopsis
Do financial derivatives enhance or impede innovation? We aim to answer this question by examining the relationship between equity options markets and standard measures of firm innovation. Our baseline results show that firms with more options trading activity generate more patents and patent citations per dollar of R&D invested. We then investigate how more active options markets affect firms' innovation strategy. Our results suggest that firms with greater trading activity pursue a more creative, diverse and risky innovation strategy. We discuss potential underlying mechanisms and show that options appear to mitigate managerial career concerns that would induce managers to take actions that boost short-term performance measures. Finally, using several econometric specifications that try to account for the potential endogeneity of options trading, we argue that the positive effect of options trading on firm innovation is causal.
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