Abdou, Khaled; Varela, Oscar - In: Applied financial economics 19 (2009) 16/18, pp. 1439-1452
We examine the post-Initial Public Offering (IPO) role of Venture Capitalists (VCs) in their portfolio companies' failures, employing a LOGIT analysis of a matched pair sample of defunct and successful VC-backed companies, and an Ordinary Least Square (OLS) analysis of the lifespan of the...