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engage in more deals. We also explore the effects of country-level pro-takeover legislation passed internationally (positive … post-law changes in VC activity. VC activity intensifies after enactment of country-level takeover friendly legislation and …
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This paper studies how corporate research and development (R&D) investment affects labor mobility. We use employer … entrepreneurship, leading employees to join the founding teams of startups that are venture capital-backed, high tech, high wage, and … in different sectors than the parent firm. These high-growth, high-risk startups emerging from R&D benefit from a focused …
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matching between startups and financiers, and the taxation of VC-backed startups matter significantly for growth …Venture capital (VC) and growth are examined both empirically and theoretically. Empirically, VC-backed startups have … reaching the right tails of the firm size and innovation distributions. Furthermore, outcomes are better for startups matched …
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. Late-stage startups are raising larger amounts of capital in the private markets from a growing pool of traditional and new … competitive changes affecting both startups and investors that help explain how the trade-offs between going public and staying … private have changed. We conclude by listing several open research questions …
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We provide a model that links the high return to venture equity to the impatience of the VCs. VCs are scarce, and hence, they have market power and a high return on their investments. As a result, VCs are eager to terminate non-performing ventures so they can move on to new ones. The scarcity of...
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management, ownership structure, and the board of directors. Our analysis focuses on the nature and stability of those firm …
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concerning the success rates, failure rates, investment rates, equity shares, and IPO values. Raising capital gains taxation … of startups. If viable, venture capitalists provide funding for the next stage. The success of a project depends on the …
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We explore the determinants of research specialization across countries and its consequences for relative wages. Using … research regardless of trade barriers or research productivity. As long as trade barriers are not too high, faster diffusion … shifts research activity toward the country that does it better. This shift in research activity raises the relative wage …
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-flow data sourced from Burgiss's large sample of institutional investors. Previous research, studying largely pre-2000 data …
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We study the characteristics and abilities of CEO candidates for companies involved in buyout (LBO) and venture capital (VC) transactions and relate them to hiring decisions, investment decisions, and company performance. Candidates are assessed on more than thirty individual abilities. The...
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