Eurozone QE helped increase R&D spending, paper finds

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Eurozone firms that receive quantitative easing funding have increased their research and development (R&D) spending, a working paper published by the European Central Bank finds.

In Quantitative easing and corporate innovation, Niklas Grimm, Luc Laeven and Alexander Popov examine companies eligible for the ECB’s corporate sector purchase programme (CSPP). Under the CSPP, the ECB buys the debt of large, publicly listed eurozone firms.

Firms that had their debt purchased by the ECB increased

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