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Does venture capital investment spur employment growth?

Belke, Ansgar; Fehn, Rainer; Foster-McGregor, Neil - 2003

Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...

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Financing entrepreneurial firms in Europe : facts, issues, and research agenda

Bottazzi, Laura; Da Rin, Marco - 2003

During the latter part of the 1990s the introduction of the euro, the dramatic increase in the supply of venture capital in most EU countries, and the creation of several new equity markets targeted at innovative firms have dramatically transformed the financing prospects of European...

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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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Comparative venture capital governance : private versus labour sponsored venture capital funds

Cumming, Douglas J.; MacIntosh, Jeffrey G. - 2003

contract between the fund managers (general partners) and the institutional investors (limited partners). By contrast, Canadian …

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The diffusion of knowledge via manager's mobility

Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David; Sforza, Alessandro - 2016

Better managers and managerial practices lead to better firm performance. Yet, little is known about what happens when … managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge …-invariant ability of the manager as well as overall firm performance. We find that the export experience gained by managers in previous …

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Immigrant entrepreneurship

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016

We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant...

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Expatriate managers : effects on firm performance

Koren, Miklós; Telegdy, Álmos - 2024

Using a novel Hungarian dataset on firms and their Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), we estimate the impact of hiring … expatriate CEOs. By examining foreign acquisitions where the new owner replaces the incumbent CEO with an expatriate or a local … CEO, we address the selection into both acquisition and CEO hiring. Firms led by expatriate CEOs show 13 percent total …

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Institutions and structural unemployment : do capital-market imperfections matter?

Belke, Ansgar; Fehn, Rainer - 2001

This paper analyzes whether differences in institutional structures on capital markets contribute to explaining why some OECD-countries, in particular the Anglo-Saxon countries, have been much more successful over the last two decades in producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment...

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Unemployment in Germany : reasons and remedies

Berthold, Norbert; Fehn, Rainer - 2003

This paper discusses the reasons for the dismal labor market performance of Germany over the last three decades along with potential remedies. It argues that labor market rigidities along with a generous welfare state in conjunction with certain changes in the economic environment are important...

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Venture cycles : theory and evidence

Gehrig, Thomas P.; Stenbacka, Rune - 2003

We demonstrate how endogenous information acquisition in venture capital markets creates investment cycles when competing financiers undertake their screening decisions in an uncoordinated way, thereby highlighting the role of intertemporal screening externalities induced by competition among...

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