Bankrupt Innovative Firms

We thank Gustavo Manso (the Editor), an anonymous Associate Editor, two anonymous referees, David Abrams, Shai Bernstein, Alon Brav, Emanuele Colonnelli, Espen Eckbo, Florian Ederer, Mike Ewens, Julian Franks, Pengjie Gao, Xavier Giroud, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Vidhan Goyal, John Graham, Umit Gurun, Edith Hotchkiss, Po-Hsuan Hsu, Victoria Ivashina, Ben Iverson, Yawen Jiao, Josh Lerner, Yueran Ma, William Mann, Rich Mathews, Filippo Mezzanotti, Frank Milne, Ramana Nanda, Marina Niessner, Gordon Phillips, David Schoenherr, Alan Schwartz, Kelly Shue, David Skeel, David Sraer, Amir Sufi, Wing Wah Tham, Heather Tookes, Wenyu Wang, Ting Xu, Dong Yan, and Alex Zentefis for valuable feedback. We also thank seminar participants at AFA (Philadelphia), ALEA (New York), CICF (Hangzhou), Economics of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Conference, EFA (Mannheim), FIRS (Savannah), FOM Conference (Dartmouth), MFA (Chicago), NBER Summer Institute (Corporate Finance; Law and Economics), NFA (Halifax), Queen's, 2nd Rome Junior Finance Conference, Simon Fraser, Tenth Searle Center/USPTO Conference on Innovation Economics, Tsinghua PBC, Wharton, and Yale for helpful suggestions. Carmen Chen, Elaine Cui, Vania Shi, and Shimei Zhou provided valuable research assistance. Ma and Wang acknowledge the financial support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). All remaining errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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