Suppose funds managers are differentiated by intrinsic or innate ability at some origin point in time. Using formal theoretical propositions, and with risk continuously increasing, the continuum of assets available to funds managers is endogenously segmented into continuums of `safe', and...

This study finds specification of minimum portfolio returns to be delivered by VCs in contracts that subsist between VCs and their principals is not a necessary condition for incentivization of optimal portfolio performance. Within populations of VCs who are characterized by risk aversion,...

Whereas risk tolerance is an important parameter of financial intermediation in markets for mutual funds, formal theoretical predictions show funds managers' choices of portfolio risk tolerances can be induced in entirety by wealth considerations. An important implication of this finding is the...

In this paper, we find evidence of reversals in relative exit performance between the "short" and "long-run" in the VC market, with the short-run defined to be the first five years of business, and the long-run, the sixth year of business onwards. Using proxies for the risk of venture capital...

This study provides rigorous empirical evidence that an increase in market power of dominant banks within deposit markets does not necessarily translate into attenuation of non-dominant banks' capacity for funding of loan commitments. This is evident in the finding that while non-dominant banks...

Typically, models of stock prices or returns assume homogeneity of risk preference parameters. This study shows modeling of IPO prices necessarily is with reference to the distribution of risk preference parameters that already are represented in secondary equity markets. Modeling of stock...