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Venture Capital, Patenting, and Usefulness of Innovations

Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We analyze incentives to develop entrepreneurial ideas for venture capitalists (VCs) and incumbent firms. If VCs are sufficiently better at judging an idea's value and if it is sufficiently more costly to patent low than high value ideas, VCs acquire valuable ideas, develop them beyond the level...

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Was Prometheus Unbound by Chance? Risk, Diversification and Growth

Acemoglu, Daron; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper offers a theory of development which links the degree of market incompleteness to capital accumulation and growth. At early stages of development, the presence of indivisible projects limits the degree of risk-spreading (diversification) that the economy can achieve. The desire to...

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Agency Costs in the Process of Development

Acemoglu, Daron; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

We analyse an economy where production is subject to moral hazard. The degree of the incentive (agency) costs introduced by the presence of moral hazard naturally depends on the information structure in the economy; it is cheaper to induce correct incentives in a society which possesses better...

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Moral Hazard and Non-Exclusive Contracts

Bisin, Alberto; Guaitoli, Danilo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper studies equilibria for economies characterized by moral hazard (hidden action), in which the set of contracts marketed in equilibrium is determined by the interaction of financial intermediaries. The crucial aspect of the environment that we study is that intermediaries are restricted...

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Cutting out the Middleman: Crowdinvesting, Efficiency, and Inequality

Grüner, Hans Peter; Siemroth, Christoph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We show that direct investments by consumers without the use of financial intermediaries can efficiently allocate financial capital to firms seeking funding for production of a novel consumption good. In our setting, consumers are also investors, and their privately known consumption preferences...

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The Microstructure of Stock Markets

Biais, Bruno; Glosten, Larry; Spatt, Chester S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We survey the literature analysing the price formation and trading process, and the consequences of market organization for price discovery and welfare. We develop a united perspective on theoretical, empirical and experimental approaches. We discuss the evidence on transaction costs and the...

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Stock Market Quality in the Prescence of a Traded Option

de Jong, Cyriel; Koedijk, Kees; Schnitzlein, Charles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We use a controlled economic experiment to examine the implications of asymmetric information for informational linkages between a stock market and a traded call option on that stock. The setting is based on the Kyle model and Back (1993). We find that an insider trades aggressively in both the...

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Adverse Selection, Credit, and Efficiency: the Case of the Missing Market

Martin, Alberto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We analyze a standard environment of adverse selection in credit markets. In our environment, entrepreneurs who are privately informed about the quality of their projects need to borrow in order to invest. Conventional wisdom says that, in this class of economies, the competitive equilibrium is...

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The Financing of Industry, 1970-89: An International Comparison

Corbett, Jennifer; Jenkinson, Tim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The main aims of this paper are, first, to construct a consistent comparative set of data on the sources of finance for investment over the period 1970--89 for Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States and second, to challenge some conventional views of the international...

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Entrepreneurship: Origins and Returns

Berglann, Helge; Moen, Espen R; Roed, Knut; Skogstrøm, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched … worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self …-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited liability firms. Based on this extended entrepreneurship concept, we find …

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