This paper provides theory and evidence relating information asymmetries and agency costs to exit outcomes in venture capital-backed entrepreneurial firms. Where venture capitalists are able to better mitigate information asymmetries and agency costs faced by the new owners of the firm, they...

This paper introduces a new dataset from 50 venture capital and private equity funds from 17 countries in Africa, North and South America, Europe and Australasia. We analyse compensation in regard to fixed management fees (as a percentage of fund size), performance fees (the carried interest...

This chapter summarizes recent research on the role of law, culture and corruption on venture capital (VC) fund structure, governance and performance. Evidence from studies that involve a multitude of countries is primarily considered. The evidence across most studies is broadly consistent with...

We study the law production race-to-the-bottom/race-to-the-top debate in a unique context of crowdfunding in which potential agency problems are extreme. Our empirical setting is based on survey data from Canada in 2013 Q1 when equity crowdfunding was not permitted but was openly contemplated by...