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This paper considers a financing problem for an innovative firm that is launching a web-based platform. The entrepreneur, on one hand, faces a large degree of demand uncertainty on his product and on the other hand has to deal with incentive problems of professional blockchain participants who...
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This study seeks to fill a gap in the research on the behavior of entrepreneurs, their decisions to develop their firms independently or with venture capitalists, and the relation to their abilities and to the value in making that ability known, even at a cost. Information asymmetry exists when...
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We develop a general model, with the exponential bandit as a special case, in which high-ability agents are more likely to achieve early success but also learn faster that their project is not promising. These counteracting effects give rise to a signaling model in which the single-crossing...
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This study investigates the differing role of enforcement on the formation of venture capital(VC) syndication networks. We conjecture that public enforcement, with strong investigativepowers against any syndicate member, discourages the formation of denser syndicationnetworks due to misconduct...
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This study investigates the differing role of enforcement on the formation of venture capital (VC) syndication networks. We conjecture that public enforcement, with strong investigative powers against any syndicate member, discourages the formation of denser syndication networks due to...
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This paper examines the role of uncertainty and capital market imperfection in influencing firm investment …. Introduction of uncertainty in the investment model allows for limited expandability and limited reversibility of capital over time … group. We identify financially constrained firms in various years by relying on investment-asset sale sensitivity. Using an …
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if expected gross returns exceed twice expected investment costs. Constrained efficient mechanisms exhibit …
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