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The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance : A Regression Discontinuity Analysis

Kerr, William - 2014

This paper documents the role of angel funding for the growth, survival, and access to follow-on funding of high-growth start-up firms. We use a regression discontinuity approach to control for unobserved heterogeneity between firms that obtain funding and those that do not. This technique...

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The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Successes : Organizational Structure, Incentives, and Complementarities

Gompers, Paul A. - 2001

We examine a sample of over thirty thousand transactions by corporate and other venture organizations. Corporate venture investments in entrepreneurial firms appear to be at least as successful (using such measures as the probability of the portfolio firm going public) as those backed by...

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Financial Factors and Investment in Belgium, France, Germany and the Uk : A Comparison Using Company Panel Data

Bond, Stephen R. - 2010

1978-89. These datasets are used to estimate a range of empirical investment equations, and to investigate the role played … the suggestion that financial constraints on investment may be relatively severe in the more market-oriented UK financial …

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Firm Level Investment and R&D in France and the United States : A Comparison

Mulkay, Benoit; Hall, Bronwyn H.; Mairesse, Jacques - 2021

This paper is a contribution to the small but growing literature that compares the investment and R&D behavior of … of a simple error-corrected investment model for both ordinary investment and for R&D investment, a model that … incorporates both output (sales or turnover) and cash flow as predictors for investment. Our focus is on two comparisons: France …

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Labor and Investment Demand at the Firm Level : a Comparison of French, German and U.S. Manufacturing, 1970-79

Mairesse, Jacques; Dormont, Brigitte - 2021

We investigate how labor and investment demand at the firm level (gross as well as net and replacement investment … for the important changes and differences in labor and investment demand between the two subperiods and across the three …

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Upstream Product Market Regulations, ICT, R&D and Productivity

Cette, Gilbert - 2015

Our study aims at assessing the actual importance of the two main channels usually contemplated in the literature through which upstream sector anticompetitive regulations may impact productivity growth: business investments in R&D and in ICT. We thus estimate what are the specific impacts of...

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Private Equity and Long-Run Investment : The Case of Innovation

Lerner, Josh - 2015

A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures from public shareholders, or whether LBO funds themselves are driven by short-term profit motives and sacrifice long-term growth to boost short-term performance. We investigate 495 transactions with a focus on...

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