Recent years have seen an upsurge of novel sources of new venture financing through crowdfunding (CF). We draw on 54,943 successfully crowdfunded projects and 3,313 venture capital (VC) investments throughout the period 04/2012-06/2015 to investigate, on the aggregate level, how crowdfunding is...

We investigate if economic factors drive gross and net cross-border venture capital inflows differently. Using a dataset of venture capital investments in European and North American countries from 2000 to 2008, we find that higher expected economic growth goes hand in hand with higher gross as...

We study short-term changes in customer visits to retail outlets around the announcement of private equity (PE) acquisitions, using aggregated and anonymized mobile phone data covering approximately ten percent of all mobile devices in the United States. Given the monthly frequency of the data,...

This study examines whether the serial entrepreneurial experience of founders contributes to improved overall performance using a sample of Specified Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) innovative firms that entered the U.S. financial markets since August 2003. Based on subsample analysis,...

We analyze the venture capitalist's decision on the timing of the IPO, the offer price and the fraction of shares he sells in the course of the IPO. Under certain assumptions about the parameters and the structure of the model, we obtain a single equilibrium in which high-quality firms separate...

This paper sets out to analyze the influence of different types of VCs on the performance of their portfolio firms around and after IPO in Germany. Our main finding is that market participants did not correctly assess the role played by the different types of VCs. Firms backed by independent,...

The amount of funds committed to private equity sponsors that are left uninvested (called dry powder) has raised numerous concerns from the public. We model the fee collection of private equity sponsors and show that funds tend to underlever future deals when they accumulate substantial amounts...