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Crédito do BNDES, dependência de finança externa, e intensidade de P&D nos setores da indústria brasileira (1998-2014) Gostaríamos de agradecer a dois pareceristas anônimos e ao editor da Estudos Econômicos pelo trabalho de revisão e decisão editorial nestes tempos de pandemia.

Abstract

This paper tests if the BNDES (Brazilian National Development Bank) plays a role compensating potential credit market imperfections, with regard to R&D investments. To do that, we use a regression with interaction terms inspired in Maskus et al. (2012)Maskus, Keith E.; Neumann, Rebecca; Seidel, Tobias. 2012. “How national and international financial development affect industrial R&D”.European Economic Review 56, no. 1: 72-83.. We analyze data on 22 Brazilian industrial sectors, having the PINTEC, the BNDES and PIA as the main data sources, and covering 6 triennia from 1998 to 2014. Our results give some support to the hypothesis that BNDES played a positive role: BNDES loans are more positively correlated with R&D intensity in industrial sectors and periods in which dependence on external finance is bigger.

Keywords
BNDES credit; Dependence on external finance; R&D intensity

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