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Taxation of a venture capitalist with a portfolio of firms
Keuschnigg, Christian - 2002
Venture capitalists not only finance but also advise and thereby add value to young innovative firms. The prospects of venture capital backed firms thus depend on joint efforts of entrepreneurs and informed venture capitalists, and are subject to double moral hazard. In financing a portfolio of...
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Taxes and venture capital support
Keuschnigg, Christian; Nielsen, Søren Bo - 2003
In this paper we set up a model of start-up finance under double moral hazard. Entrepreneurs lack own resources and business experience to develop their ideas. Venture capitalists can provide start-up finance and commercial support. The effort put forth by either agent contributes to the firm s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404427
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Start-ups, venture capitalists, and the capital gains tax
Keuschnigg, Christian; Nielsen, Søren Bo - 2002
A model of start-up finance with double moral hazard is proposed. Entrepreneurs have ideas but lack own resources as well as commercial experience. Venture capitalists provide start-up finance and managerial support. Both types of agents thus jointly contribute to the firm s success, but neither...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410298
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Comparative venture capital governance : private versus labour sponsored venture capital funds
Cumming, Douglas J.; MacIntosh, Jeffrey G. - 2003
Private independent limited partnership venture capital funds receive capital from institutional investors, without tax incentives. Limited partnership investment activities are governed by restrictive covenants that are determined by negotiated contract between the fund managers (general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514156
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Contract duration and indexation in a period of real and nominal uncertainty
Christofidēs, Loizos N.; Peng, Amy Chen - 2003
determinants of key provisions of contracts such as their duration and indexation clauses. Econometric techniques, which account … for the interaction between duration and indexation, as well as the latent nature of the elasticity of indexation are used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508096
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Measuring the spillovers of venture capital
Schnitzer, Monika; Watzinger, Martin - 2017
We provide the first measurement of knowledge spillovers from venture capital-financed companies onto the patenting activities of other companies. On average, these spillovers are nine times larger than those generated by the R&D investment of established companies. Spillover effects are larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011718181
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Unemployment and endogenous reallocation over the business cycle
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo - 2013 - This version: January 2013, First version: June 2010
negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691688
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Family-specific investments and divorce : a theory of dynamically inconsistent household behavior
Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Roeder, Kerstin - 2016
-restoring earnings tax is genderneutral and fairly flat with respect to marriage duration. The optimal divorce tax is an inverted …-U function of marriage duration, reaches its maximum when children are in their teens, and declines thereafter. We use our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509239
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Cash flow duration and the term structure of equity returns
Weber, Michael - 2016
The term structure of equity returns is downward-sloping: stocks with high cash flow duration earn 1.10% per month … lower returns than short-duration stocks in the cross section. I create a measure of cash flow duration at the firm level … for short-sale constraints, and find the negative cross-sectional relationship between cash flow duration and returns is …
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The economics of pending patents
Koenen, Johannes; Peitz, Martin - 2011
We provide a treatment of a number of questions pertaining to pending patents – a subject that has so-far mainly been discussed en-passant in the existing literature. We present the underlying institutional and legal framework that governs pending patents and some basic facts related to them....
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