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Evolution of decision and control rights in venture capital contracts: an empirical analysis

Bienz, Carsten; Walz, Uwe - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

We analyze the structure and evolution of the allocation of decision and control rights in venture capital contracts by using a sample of 464 contracts between venture capitalists (VC) and portfolio firms from Germany. We focus on the evolution of control and decisions rights along three time...

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The dynamics of venture capital contracts

Bienz, Carsten; Hirsch, Julia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

We analyze the degree of contract completeness with respect to staging of venture capital investments using a hand-collected German data set of contract data from 464 rounds into 290 entrepreneurial firms. We distinguish three forms of staging (pure milestone financing, pure round financing and...

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Like ripples on a pond: behavioral spillovers and their implications for research and policy

Dolan, Paul; Galizzi, Matteo M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

No behavior sits in a vacuum, and one behavior can greatly affect what happens next. We propose a conceptual frame within which a broad range of behavioral spillovers can be accounted for when applying behavioral science to policy challenges. We consider behaviors which take place sequentially...

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Digit ratio (2D:4D) and altruism: evidence from a large, multi-ethnic sample

Galizzi, Matteo M.; Nieboer, Jeroen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

We look at the links between the Digit Ratio - the ratio of the length of the index finger to the length of the ring finger – for both right and left hands, and giving in a Dictator Game. Unlike previous studies with exclusively Caucasian subjects, we recruited a large, ethnically diverse...

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Because I'm worth it: a lab-field experiment on the spillover effects of incentives in health

Dolan, Paul; Galizzi, Matteo M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We conduct a controlled lab-field experiment to directly test the short-run spillover effects of one-off financial …

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The broadening spectrum of reputation risk in organizations: banking on risk and trust relationships

Scott, Susan V.; Walsham, Geoff - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Globalizing knowledge economies foster conditions that intensify the role and value of organizational reputation risk … reputation risk. Having noted the ambivalence that surrounds ‘risk positions’, we present a re-definition of reputation risk that … encompasses the dynamics of contemporary risk and trust relationships. We explore the capacity of different trust forms to reduce …

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The development of electronic trading in the futures industry: strategic risk positioning in a globalising age

Scott, Susan V.; Barrett, Michael I. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

financial futures exchanges (1998-200). The term ‘strategic risk positioning’ is used as a central organizing concept to draw … together an analysis of the subjective time-risk relationships influencing strategy formation during this period. We being by … sense of an uncertain future shapes the strategic imagination and triggers processes of risk positioning. In conclusion, the …

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Banking on trust: managing reputation risk in financial service organizations

Scott, Susan V.; Walsham, Geoff - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

In this paper we introduce concepts that build a theoretical notion of reputation risk and establish the need to extend … our approach to managing such risk.. The existing literature on reputation risk has tended to be reactive and focus on …. We explore the notion of ‘active trust’ as a way of redesigning approaches to the management of risk. Our analysis …

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