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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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will have no impact on corporate investment decisions. This paper develops econometric tests which distinguish between … these two views of dividend taxation. By extending Tobin's quot;qquot; theory of investment to incorporate taxes at both the … corporate and personal levels, the implications of each view for corporate investment decisions can be derived. The competing …
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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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volume of investment. Its application to the United States economy and the economies of other major OECD nations suggests …
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investment has a strong association with growth: over l9&)?l95 each percent of GDP invested in equipment is associated with an … any of the other components of investment. A variety of considerations suggest that this association is causal, that … higher equipment investment drives faster growth, and that the social return to equipment investment in well functioning …
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This paper uses historicaI U.S. data to directly estimate the contribution of intergenerational transfers to aggregate capital accumulation. The evidence presented indicates that intergenerational transfers account for the vast majority of aggregate U .S. capital formation; only a negligible...
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This paper overviews the issues connected with proposals to spur investment using tax incentives. There are four main … investment incentives approach $100 billion. (3) Measures to spur investment are likely to have substantial effects. The lags are … possible to spur investment with only a small revenue cost. It is crucial to take account of the effect of anticipated policy …
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's q theory of investment. As Tobin has explained, aggregate investment can be expected to depend in a stable way on q, the … return on physical capital raise its market value and cause increased investment until equilibrium is restored. Although … models linking the stock market to investment have been estimated, they have not previously been used to examine the impact …
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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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