Using the VC industry as a laboratory, we investigate whether incidental in-person interactions between people working in close proximity facilitate their future collaboration on projects of significant economic value. Our analysis exploits urban topological features surrounding VC fund offices...

We examine the extent to which individual monitoring mechanisms enhance firm performance and shareholder value. We use a sample of Australian firms, from 1994 to 2003, to analyze the relationship between firm performance and corporate governance. This provides a long time series of governance...

Despite the general acceptance of the role of corporate governance, empirical research has remained inconclusive regarding the extent to which individual monitoring mechanisms enhance firm performance and shareholder value. In particular, most previous studies have not convincingly overcome two...