Misvaluation and Corporate Inventiveness

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

67 Pages Posted: 3 Dec 2016 Last revised: 26 Jun 2020

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Ming Dong

York University - Schulich School of Business

David A. Hirshleifer

Marshall School of Business, USC; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Siew Hong Teoh

UCLA Anderson School of Management

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Date Written: February 16, 2020

Abstract

We test how market overvaluation affects corporate innovation. Estimated stock overvaluation is very strongly associated with measures of innovative inventiveness (novelty, originality, and scope), as well as R&D and innovative output (patent and citation counts). Misvaluation affects R&D more via a non-equity channel than via equity issuance. The sensitivity of innovative inventiveness to misvaluation is increasing with share turnover and overvaluation. The frequency of exceptionally high innovative inputs/outputs increases with overvaluation. This evidence suggests that market overvaluation may generate social value by increasing innovative output and by encouraging firms to engage in highly inventive innovation.

Keywords: Stock Market Misvaluation, Innovation, R&D, Patents, Behavioral Finance, Market Efficiency

JEL Classification: G14, G32, O32

Suggested Citation

Dong, Ming and Hirshleifer, David A. and Teoh, Siew Hong, Misvaluation and Corporate Inventiveness (February 16, 2020). Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2878418 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2878418

Ming Dong

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