Journal of Banking & Finance Vol. 148 2023
Patented knowledge capital and implied equity risk premium
Abstract
Patented knowledge capital improves the transparency of research and development expenditures, converts intangible intellectual property into collateralizable and salable assets, enhances sustained competitive advantage by enabling firms to weather business cycles, withstand obsolescence risk and competitive threats, and lowers future financing risk and growth uncertainties. Consistent with this conjecture, we find that knowledge capital, proxied by stocks of patents, their forward citations and estimated market value, is associated with lower future cost of equity as well as firm risk. These findings appear robust to controlling for the stock of R&D expenses, potential endogeneity concerns about firms’ innovative activities, controls for technology spillovers from industry rivals, and product market competition.
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2022.106738
- Volume
- 148
- Pages
- 106738
- Language
- en
- Sources
- openalex crossref bibtex:phds-export.bib