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The aim of this chapter is to identify the different role of financial funds in traditional and R&D investments in Italian manufacturing firms using information from Capitalia’s latest Survey of Italian Firms. R&D, defined as a creative activity implemented to improve know-how and its utilization in new applications, is quite distinct because of its high rate of information opacity. Coherently with the asymmetric information theory, R&D thus implies that firms will have greater difficulty in finding external financial funding. The higher risk related to R&D projects could entail some form of financial constraint. However, signalling mechanisms such as self-financing could correct such a market imperfection.
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Brighi, P., Torluccio, G. (2010). Traditional and R&D Investments: are They really Different?. In: Fiordelisi, F., Molyneux, P., Previati, D. (eds) New Issues in Financial Institutions Management. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230299153_5
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