Digitization dramatically changes entrepreneurs’ business models and their implications for the type and timing of finance that support them. It creates new financial channels (including crowd-investors and initial coin offerings) that complement, and in part substitute, traditional...

This study is based on the premise that mostly large enterprises require investment banking services, due to their complexity and the difficult scenarios in which they operate. Accordingly, we empirically investigate the hypothesis that both the type of ownership structures and the quality of...

The aim of this study is to analyze the returns of business angels' investments and their determinants. In this research the author wants to investigate the relationship existing between the performance of business angels investments and a series of explanatory variables widely used in the...

Start-ups need capital to make new investments, but they don't have access to debt capital because of their inability to produce positive cash flows. The economic player who best suits seeds and start-ups financial needs is the Business Angel, a private investor who finance newly constituted...

In this paper we consider the role of private equity for growth and restructuring processes, through the analysis of a comprehensive dataset of European going private deals during the period 1998-2007, for which we explore the post-transaction operating performance of companies gone private and...

This paper aims at providing evidence on the activity of business angels, using a unique dataset gathered during the five-year time period 2007-2011 with the support of IBAN (Italian Business Angels Network). In particular, the paper studies how characteristics of the investor and of the...