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Suppose entrepreneurs within venture capital markets accept 'lower than reservation prices' from reputable venture capitalists (VCs). This study shows negative relations between project prices and VCs' reputation ('reputation price discounts') are best explained by presence of an ability measure...
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Conventional implementations of the Bonacich (1987) status construct are derived from economic agents' `information reach' and `frequency of repeated partnerships'. This study finds status that derives from new entrant venture capitalists' (VCs') information reach and frequency of repeated...
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Absent superior performance with respect to 'Portfolio Innovation Focus' (unexpected innovation), this study finds 'less experienced' ('competing') VCs, which only coinvest with other less experienced VCs, become less reputable than alternate less experienced ('non-competing') VCs who coinvest...
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This study develops a theoretical model that parameterizes cross-sectional differences in opportunity set risk within venture capital markets. The theoretical model shows clusters of venture capital activity can be induced by non-monotonic relations that obtain between search costs for projects...
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I find venture capitalists' (VCs') information production activities help decrease uncertainty about the valuations of new innovations within public equity markets, resulting in price convergence within the cross-section of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) that are backed by different classes of...
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In this survey article, we summarize the evidence from the extant literature on how sovereign laws and their enforcement impact outside investor protection, and the development of capital markets and individual firms. The body of evidence indicates the legal protections conferred on outside...
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I find venture capitalists' (VCs') information production activities help decrease uncertainty about asset valuations within public equity markets, resulting in price convergence within the cross-section of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) that are backed by different classes of VCs and price...
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This study examines the extent to which reputation constructs proposed in NAH (Nahata 2008) or OBH (Obrimah 2016a) exhibit uniqueness properties expected to be characteristic of reputation constructs. Empirical results provide evidence of concave (non-unique) relations between reputation...
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Typically, studies of efforts of economic agents do not distinguish between efforts that directly generate returns (`return effort') and efforts that facilitate demonstration of return effort, that is, `return effort cost'. This study provides formal theoretical evidence that a distinguishing of...
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