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Vulanovic, Milos - 2016

This paper studies how institutional characteristics of Specified Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) are related to … their post-merger survival. SPACs are unique financial firms that conduct the IPO with the solely purpose to use the … proceeds to acquire another private company. Paper finds that institutional characteristics of SPACs are important in …

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SPAC IPOs

Shachmurove, Yochanan; Vulanovic, Milos - 2018

Specified Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) are a special type of public companies currently available to investors … in financial markets. As an investment vehicle, modern SPACs are traced back to 18-th century England where blank checks … Commission classifies SPAC as a blank check company. This chapter reviews the academic and financial literatures about SPACs …

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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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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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Venture capital investment and labor market performance : a panel data analysis

Belke, Ansgar; Fehn, Rainer; Foster-McGregor, Neil - 2001

Labor market performance has differed considerably between OECD countries over the last two decades. The focus of the literature so far has been to ask whether these differences can be explained by varying degrees of labor market rigidities and generosity of welfare states. This paper takes a...

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Reducing Asymmetric Information in Venture Capital Backed IPOs

Escobari, Diego; Serrano, Alejandro - 2015

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to model asymmetric information and study the profitability of venture capital (VC) backed initial public offerings (IPOs). Our mixtures approach endogenously separates IPOs into differentiated groups based on their returns’ determinants. We also...

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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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Venture capital, double-sided adverse selection, and double-sided moral hazard

Houben, Eike - 2002 - First Version: March 2002, this Version: December 2002

The paper offers a new explanation for the widely observed use of redeemable and convertible preferred stock in venture capital finance. Redeemable and convertible preferred stocks can be used to endogenously allocate cash flow and control rights as a function of the state of nature, the...

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Underpricing of venture-backed and non venture-backed IPOs : Germany's Neuer Markt

Franzke, Stefanie A. - 2003 - This version: November 6, 2003

This paper analyzes a comprehensive data set of 160 non venture-backed, 79 venture-backed and 61 bridge financed companies going public at Germany´s Neuer Markt between March 1997 and March 2002. I examine whether these three types of issues differ with regard to issuer characteristics, balance...

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Venture capital and private equity investment strategies in selected European countries

Dziekoński, Krzysztof; Ignatiuk, Sławomir - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 11 (2015) 4, pp. 34-45

Private equity and venture capital (PE/VC) funding is the provision of equity capital by financial investors to non-quoted companies with high growth potential. It has a particular emphasis on entrepreneurial activities rather than on mature businesses. PE/VC investors differ on several...

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