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Corruption beyond the glass ceiling : do women entrepreneurs perceive corruption differently?

Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2019

Adding to the corruption-gender nexus, this paper contributes across several dimensions: (a) measurement of corruption … ceiling were undermined in nations with severe gender inequality. …

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Measuring alpha in the fund management industry : do female managers perform better?

Babalos, Vassilios; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2013

This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences …

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The gender gap in entrepreneurship : not just a matter of personality

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2014

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk … aversion among women explains a large share of the entrepreneurial gender gap. We also find an education effect contributing to …

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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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Determinants of voluntary bank disclosure : evidence from Japanese shinkin banks

Spiegel, Mark; Yamori, Nobuyoshi - 2004

Disclosure is widely regarded as a necessary condition for market discipline in a modern financial sector. However, the determinants of disclosure decisions are still unknown, particularly among banks. This paper investigates the determinants of disclosure by Japanese Shinkin banks in 1996 and...

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Disagreement and optimal security design

Ortner, Juan M.; Schmalz, Martin C. - 2018

We study optimal security design when the issuer and market participants agree to disagree about the characteristics of the asset to be securitized. We show that pooling assets can be optimal because it mitigates the effects of disagreement between issuer and investors, whereas tranching a...

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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 capital backed firms thus depend on joint efforts of entrepreneurs and informed venture capitalists, and are subject …

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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...

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