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Ownership structure, voluntary R&D disclosure and market value of firms: the French case

Sabri Boubaker

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R&D disclosure is a strategic decision directed at investors. However, voluntary R&D disclosure can lead to a higher proprietary cost and may benefit competitors. The main purpose of the present paper is to examine whether voluntary R&D disclosure impacts the firm's market value, and whether it is influenced by ownership structure. Using a sample of 84 French listed firms over the 2000-2004 period, we develop an R&D disclosure index composed of 32 hand-collected items from annual reports. The obtained findings provide some important insights. First, we show that voluntary R&D disclosure improves the market value of equity, suggesting that the benefits from disclosures of R&D activities exceed the disclosure costs. Second, we find that family- and institutional investor-firms are more prone to retain R&D information. Finally, we document that the more French firms invest in R&D, the larger the amount of R&D-related information they disclose. Also, R&D capitalization provides incentives for companies to disseminate more R&D-related information.

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hal-00809226 , version 1 (08-04-2013)

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Mehdi Nekhili, Sabri Boubaker, Faten Lakhal. Ownership structure, voluntary R&D disclosure and market value of firms: the French case. International Journal of Business, 2012, Vol. 17 (n° 2), p. 126. ⟨hal-00809226⟩
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