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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746202
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A risk assessment model for banks
Goodhart, Charles; Sunirand, Pojanart; Tsomocos, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
The objective of this paper is to propose a model to assess risk for banks. Its main innovation is to incorporate … endogenous interaction between banks, recognising that the actual risk to which an individual bank is exposed also depends on its … data and therefore can be implemented as a risk assessment tool for financial regulators and central banks. We address the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745460
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Towards a measure of financial fragility
Aspachs, Oriol; Goodhart, Charles; Tsomocos, Dimitrios P.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
This paper proposes a measure of financial fragility that is based on economic welfare in a general equilbrium model calibrated against UK data. The model comprises a household sector, three active heterogeneous banks, a central bank/regulator, incomplete markets, and endogenous default. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745512