As an effective investment strategy, investors often invest jointly in a company by forming a syndicate. The unique feature of this paper is that it endogenizes the formation of an investment syndicate. We provide a theory on the endogenous formation of networks in investment syndication and...

We study corporate strategic investment in technology via corporate venture capital (CVC). An entrepreneurial venture is said CVC-superior if investing in it is better than investing in internal R&D to an investing company. We find that ventures with high expected technologies are CVC-superior;...