The conventional wisdom has maintained that being in proximity to entrepreneurial ecosystems helps startups to raise financing, develop and grow. In this paper, we examine the effect of a major component of an entrepreneurial ecosystem-financial or venture capital clusters on the exit of a...

Using the Kauffman Firm Survey, we examine how characteristics of a startup's assets, information about the startup, and entrepreneur attributes relate to financial structure at inception. Startups with more physical assets or those where the entrepreneurs have other similar businesses are more...

This paper analyzes the current use of incentive-fee-concepts for mutual funds in Germany. Following an empirical analysis about the relevance of these methods, the different methods of calculation and the influence of different parameters are described. Further on it explains the impacts of...