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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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Silli, Bernhard; Cohen, Randolph B; Polk, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

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Stock prices under pressure: how tax and interest rates drive returns at the turn of the tax year

Kang, Johnny; Pekkala, Tapio; Polk, Christopher; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

We show that the level of interest rates determines the magnitude of mispricing at the turn of the tax year, as investors face the trade-o¤ between selling a temporarily depressed stock this year and selling next year, but delaying tax implications by one year. Interest rates do explain the...

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Does the use of social networking sites increase children’s risk of harm?

Staksrud, Elisabeth; Ólafsson, Kjartan; Livingstone, Sonia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

experiences of online risk among children, the affordances of SNS lend support to this possibility, attracting much policy and … second hypothesis stated that SNS users with more digital competence will encounter more online risk than those with less …) will encounter more online risk than those with fewer risky practices: this too was supported by the data; thus what …

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Risky social networking practices among ‘under-age’ users: lessons for evidence-based policy

Livingstone, Sonia; Ólafsson, Kjartan; Staksrud, Elisabeth - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

European self-regulation to ensure children's safety on social networking sites requires that providers ensure children are old enough to use the sites, aware of safety messages, empowered by privacy settings, discouraged from disclosing personal information, and supported by easy to use...

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