We demonstrate how endogenous information acquisition in venture capital markets creates investment cycles when competing financiers undertake their screening decisions in an uncoordinated way, thereby highlighting the role of intertemporal screening externalities induced by competition among...

This paper analyzes whether differences in institutional structures on capital markets contribute to explaining why some OECD-countries, in particular the Anglo-Saxon countries, have been much more successful over the last two decades in producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment...

This paper analyzes whether differences in institutional structures on capital markets contribute to explaining why some OECD-countries, in particular the Anglo-Saxon countries, have been much more successful over the last two decades in producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment...

Ein wichtiger Einflussfaktor auf die Innovationsaktivitäten der Volkswirtschaft und somit auch auf Wachstum und Beschäftigung ist der Kapitalmarkt. An dieser Stelle setzt die Untersuchung an: Es wird eingehend die Rolle der Finanzierungsalternative Venture Capital im Innovationssystem und...