The relationship between a venture capitalist and an entrepreneur is modeled to investigate the impact of public subsidies on venture capital investments in start-up enterprises. In this model, the venture capitalist only finances start-up enterprises if he has sufficient expertise to make...

Starting a firm with expansive potential is an option for educated and high-skilled workers. This option serves as an insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within a matching model that reducing the start-up costs...

This paper proposes and analyses a model of start-up investment. Innovative entrepreneurs are commercially inexperienced and can benefit from venture capital support. Only part of them succeed in matching with a venture capitalist while the rest must resort to standard bank finance. We consider...

Thema dieses Kompendiums ist die Finanzierung von Unternehmensgründungen und des Unternehmenswachstums in einer frühen Phase. Der Band mit wissenschaftlichen Beiträgen von prominenten Fachvertretern ist die erste geschlossene Publikation zum Thema Entrepreneurial Finance. Er wendet sich...