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This paper examines the relation between private equity (PE) investors' involvement and their portfolio firms' earnings quality. We operationalize earnings quality through comparative analyses of conditional loss recognition timeliness. For a sample of unlisted Belgian firms, we document that PE...
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This paper examines firm-level determinants of mature firm exits after economic distress. Using nested logit models and a sample of 6,118 distress-related exits in Belgium, we analyze the type of exit that distressed firms experience. We show that 41% of the firms in our sample exit through a...
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This paper examines the effect of different types of international knowledge accumulation on the internationalization of venture capital firms, as a particular type of professional service firms. We distinguish between experiential knowledge acquired through previous activities, inherited...
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High growth entrepreneurial companies need external financial resources as their internally generated cash flows are typically smaller than their investment opportunities, but they may be faced with finance constraints due to market imperfections, such as asymmetric information and transaction...
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This paper studies how the presence of cross-border as opposed to domestic venture capital investors is associated with the growth of portfolio companies. For this purpose, we use a longitudinal research design and track sales, total assets and payroll expenses in 761 European technology...
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Compares the relative importance of syndicationmotives across different types of venture capitalists. First, a discussion ofmotives for syndicating venture capital (VC) investments leads to theformulation of several hypotheses, two of which propose that the finance motiveis more important for...
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