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The business angel portfolio under the European Angels Fund : an empirical analysis
Gvetadze, Salome; Pal, Kristian; Torfs, Wouter - 2020
This paper analyses the Business Angel (BA) portfolio of the European Angels Fund (EAF), an initiative of the European Investment Fund, which engages in co-investment relationships with experienced business angels across Europe. It uses EIF’s proprietary database to shed light on a specific...
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An elementary model of VC financing and growth
Greenwood, Jeremy; Han, Pengfei; Inokuma, Hiroshi; … - 2022
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Blockchain technology : what is it good for?
Ammous, Saifedean - 2016
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How can cryptocurrency and blockchain technology play a role in building social and solidarity finance?
Scott, Brett - 2016
The decentralized digital currency Bitcoin - and its underlying "blockchain" technology - has created much excitement … considers "blockchain 2.0" technologies with more overtly communitarian ideals and their potential for creating "cooperation at …
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Corporate capture of blockchain governance
Ferreira, Daniel Bernardo Soares; Li, Jin; Nikolowa, … - 2019
We develop a theory of blockchain governance. In our model, the proof-of-work system, which is the most common set of … services. We analyze the two-way interactions between blockchain governance and the market structure of the industries in the … blockchain ecosystem. Our main result is that the proof-of-work system leads to a situation where the governance of the …
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The blockchain technology : some theory and applications
Dimitri, Nicola - 2017
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Commercializing Academic Research: The Quality of Faculty Patenting
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin; Schneider, Cedric - 2008
The knowledge produced by academic scientists has been identified as a potential key driver of technological progress. Recent policies in Europe aim at increasing commercially orientated activities in academe. Based on a sample of German scientists across all fields of science we investigate the...
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A Time to Print, a Time to Reform
Boerner, Lars; Rubin, Jared; Severgnini, Battista - 2019
The public mechanical clock and the movable type printing press were two of the most important and complex general purpose technologies of the late medieval period. We document two of their most important, yet unforeseeable, consequences. First, an instrumental variables analysis indicates that...
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Disasters and the networked economy : a book summary
Albala-Bertrand, José M. - 2014
This document summarizes the thrust of my monograph book Disasters and the Networked Economy (2003, NY: Routledge. 228 pp. ISBN: 978-0-415-66629-9). It is no substitution for the book, but it attempts to make salient the main concepts, explanations and conclusions of it. It does so by first...
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Shared mandates, moral hazard, and political (mis)alignment in a decentralized economy
Estache, Antonio; Garsous, Grégoire; Motta, Ronaldo … - 2015
This paper investigates the effects of political (mis)alignment on public service delivery when mandates are shared between state and local governments. We analyze sewage treatment policies in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Relying on difference-in-differences estimations, we establish a...
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