This paper analyzes the role of foreign VCs in driving venture success in emerging markets. We analyze a comprehensive data-set of 4753 portfolio companies from China. We test whether the presence of a foreign VC increases the likelihood that a portfolio company is successfully exited. We find...

We use a comprehensive database of venture-capital-backed companies from China to test whether and how foreign venture capitalists (VCs) can facilitate international initial public offerings (IPOs) of entrepreneurial companies. Foreign VCs increase the likelihood that a portfolio company lists...

This paper analyzes the desirability of relaxing constraints on non-pro-rata share issuances and examines amendments to Australian listing rules that have done so. The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) recently amended its listing rules to allow small-cap companies to issue up to 25% of their...

China’s venture capital (VC) market features significant government ownership of VCs. We examine the impact of government-owned VCs on the exit success of entrepreneurial firms. We distinguish between types of government VC according to the degree of government ownership (whole versus partial)...

We use novel U.S. county social capital data from the Social Capital Project and show that acquirers located in a high social capital county experience higher announcement returns. The effect is more pronounced when agency problems in the acquirer are more severe. In addition, we find evidence...

The potential to exit companies through Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) is argued to be critical to the existence of an active venture capital (VC) market. However, this can be difficult to test due to endogeneity concerns. We use the suspension of China’s IPO market as an exogenous shock. We...