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Venture Capital Firms Valuation in Bull and Bear Markets : Evidence From Sweden
Isaksson, Anders - 2020
This study uses an experimentally designed case study approach to investigate Swedish venture capital firms' valuation practices in two different economic contexts – the economic boom (bull market) of 1999 and the downturn (bear market) of 2002. A key finding in our study is that during...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507850
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496600
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Angel Cognition and Active Involvement in BA Groups : A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis
Wirtz, Peter - 2019
The present research sets out to reach a better understanding of the determinants of business angels' active involvement in making business angel groups accomplish diverse functions and building cognitive resources and shared competencies. We develop a framework where angels' decision making...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888909
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398923
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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
companies going public at Germany´s Neuer Markt between March 1997 and March 2002. I examine whether these three types of issues … underwriters in certifying the quality of a company when going public. Companies backed by a prestigious venture capitalist and …/or underwritten by a top bank are expected to show less underpricing at the initial public offering (IPO) due to a reduced ex …
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Capital market institutions and venture capital : do they affect unemployment and labour demand?
Fehn, Rainer; Fuchs, Thomas - 2003
This paper analyses the influence of the capital market on the labour market. Especially the impact of start-up financing on the structure of unemployment is of interest. We use a cross-country panel data analysis to examine how venture capital investment influences disaggre-gate unemployment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506487
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Venture capital investment and labor market performance : a panel data analysis
Belke, Ansgar; Fehn, Rainer; Foster-McGregor, Neil - 2002
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408964
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Venture capital investments and merger and acquisition activity around the world
Phillips, Gordon M.; Zhdanov, Alexei - 2018
We examine the relation between venture capital (VC) investments, M&A activity, and merger competition laws in 48 countries around the world. We find evidence of a strong positive association between VC investments and lagged M&A activity, consistent with the hypothesis that an active M&A market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011847725
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001755444