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Venture capital beyond the financial crisis : how corporate venturing boosts new entrepreneurial clusters (and assists governments in their innovation efforts)
McCahery, Joseph A.; Vermeulen, Erik P. M. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010383567
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Exit Through Exitus in Private Equity Buyouts
Hammer, Benjamin - 2015
We study the impact of PE firm and buyout characteristics on default probability employing a Cox proportional hazards model to a global sample of 5,093 buyouts between 1997 and 2012. Our results indicate that investments of generalists have lower default probability than those of specialists....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025950
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Chapter 8. A Survey of Venture Capital Research
Rin, Marco Da; Hellmann, Thomas; Puri, Manju - 2013
This survey reviews the growing body of academic work on venture capital. It lays out the major data sources used. It examines the work on venture capital investments in companies, looking at issues of selection, contracting, post-investment services, and exits. The survey considers recent work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025556
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The tax-efficient use of debt in multinational corporations
Møen, Jarle; Schindler, Dirk; Schjelderup, Guttorm; … - 2018
Some multinationals use the parent company as a lender to the group, whereas others set up an internal bank in a low tax jurisdiction. This paper discusses the link between capital structure choices and tax planning motives in multinational groups. We model the trade-off between the use of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872932
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Risky Business : Institutions vs. Social Networks in FDI
Pandya, Sonal S. - 2017
Political economy accounts of economic integration strongly emphasize the importance of legal contract enforcement. We challenge extant research by showing that relational contracting, relationship-based contract enforcement, is more efficient for high-risk, human capital-intensive activities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975804
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Bankruptcy Law and Angel Investors around the World
Cumming, Douglas J.; Zhang, Minjie - 2022
We conjecture that angel investment in entrepreneurial firms depends on two types of bankruptcy laws around the world. Corporate bankruptcy laws impact investor terms and incentives to finance risky entrepreneurs, particularly given reforms that brought about a time-efficient, simplified, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014235768
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Extensive and Intensive Investment and the Dead Weight Loss of Corporate Taxation
Keuschnigg, Christian - 2007
The routine way of anticipating the effects of the corporate (profit) tax on investments and location choice is to calculate the effective marginal and average tax rates. This paper introduces a model of monopolistic competition to show how investment on the extensive and intensive margins...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012731626
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Does a VC’s Commitment Lead to Improved Investment Outcomes? Evidence From Climate Startups
Burt, Aaron; Harford, Jarrad V. T.; Stanfield, Jared R.; … - 2022
We assess whether a VC’s intrinsic commitment to a startup affects investment performance. We proxy for climate change commitment using the political contributions to democrats of the lead VC person on a deal. We find investments by democrats in climate-related startups have 8% higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014236837
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The globalization of angel investments : evidence across countries
Lerner, Joshua; Schoar, Antoinette; Sokolinski, Stanislav; … - In: Journal of financial economics 127 (2018) 1, pp. 1-20
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An Introduction to Shari'ah Considerations in Bankruptcy and Insolvency Contexts and Islamic Finance's First Bankruptcy (East Cameron)
McMillen, Michael J. T. - 2012
This paper is an introductory survey of bankruptcy and insolvency theory and practice relating to the introduction of … Shari'ah principles into secular bankruptcy and insolvency regimes in both jurisdictions that incorporate the Shari'ah, to … the Shari'ah principles that are applicable in the bankruptcy and insolvency context. Thereafter, the paper notes the …
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