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Staged financing of venture capital-backed firms is valuable to both investors and entrepreneurs, but comes with a potential cost: hold-up. With asymmetric information and strong control rights, financial intermediaries may earn rents on their inside knowledge. We find that environments where...
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We review the recent literature on the financing of innovation, inclusive of large companies and new startups. This research strand has been very active over the past five years, generating important new findings, questioning some long-held beliefs, and creating its own puzzles. Our review...
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In this paper we aim to empirically test the monitoring effect of Venture Capital financing on portfolio companies. Following Bernstein et al. (2015), we exploit the introduction of a new airline route between investor and investee locations as an exogenous shock lowering the cost of monitoring...
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Contributing to the literature on local bias and financial networks, we examine how direct and indirect network ties of financial intermediaries mitigate the effects of distance and preference for local investments. In our analysis of cross-border venture capital exits, we find that proximity...
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What is the role of a country's financial system in determining technology adoption? To examine this, a dynamic contract model is embedded into a general equilibrium setting with competitive intermediation. The terms of finance are dictated by an intermediary's ability to monitor and control a...
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Venture capital (VC) has emerged as one of the dominant forms of financing for technology intensive industries. Many start-ups have flourished tremendously after receiving VC funding and have gone on to become industry leaders. Prominent examples include Apple, Cisco, Intel, Genentech, and most...
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There are two major trends in US entrepreneurship since 1975: (1) entrepreneurs' leverage has risen; and (2) their … examine which channels can reproduce trends in entrepreneurship seen in the data. The first two channels prove to be important … the rate of entrepreneurship and a rise in their average leverage as observed in the data. When these trends are accounted …
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