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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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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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when institutional quality is instrumented. Finally, the experience of Hong Kong, which has had a flat investment ratio … since the 1960s, is consistent with the idea that making the transition from a low-investment economy to a high-investment …
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A resurgence in private investment is a necessary ingredient of a sustainable recovery in heavily-indebted developing … investment until much of the residual uncertainty regarding the eventual success of the reform is eliminated. This paper shows … that even moderate amounts of policy uncertainty can act as a hefty tax on investment, and that otherwise sensible reforms …
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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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since the 1950s. Growth accelerations tend to be correlated with increases in investment and trade, and with real exchange …
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determinant of the private investment response. We look at a simple model of political-economic equilibrium to make this intuition … work. we find that a high level of urbanization magnifies the investment reduction in response to an external shock. This … pernicious economic effects. We also find that the provision of political rights is conducive to superior private investment …
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