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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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We develop an integrated theory of investment, seasoned equity offerings (SEOs), liquidation, and corporate savings … payout policies. Facing costly external financing, the firm prefers to fund its investment internally, so that its optimal … substantial delay in investment; (4) A financially constrained firm over-invests in early stages of its life-cycle in an effort to …
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We study the impact of stochastic interest rates and capital illiquidity on investment and firm value by incorporating … quantitative effects of the stochastic interest rates and capital illiquidity on investment, Tobin's average q, the duration and …
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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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, consumption/savings, and portfolio selection. For a lump-sum investment payoff and an agent with a sufficiently strong … precautionary savings motive, an increase in volatility can accelerate investment, contrary to the standard real options analysis …. When the agent can trade the market portfolio to partially hedge against investment risk, the systematic volatility is …
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We study how investors' preferences for robustness influence corporate investment, financing, and compensation … ambiguity aversion lowers Tobin's q; the average investment, and investment volatility. The entrepreneur values the project at …
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