The paper aims to investigate how the macro agent-based literature, which has developed intensively since 2000, analyzes the issue of financial instability. Within this new paradigm, attention is focused on two research communities engaged in researching this question: the Keynes and Schumpeter...

Building on Huang and Xu's (2003) financial syndication model, we model syndication for expertise, and examine its impact on post-investment, venture capitalist involvement. We compare the performances of financial versus expertise motives on the decision to finance innovation.