Ventures are often financed in several stages. Stage financing provides a real option valuable when facing external uncertainty. However, stage financing may also induce investor opportunism, if the property rights on an invention are not sufficiently protected. We look at the case where the...

Venture capital is widely believed to be an influential arrangement for the financing of new innovative companies. We examine and find empirical evidence that venture capital financing is related to product market strategies and outcomes of startups. We use a unique hand-collected database of...

We develop and analyze a model of a multi-stage investment project that captures many features of Ramp;D ventures and start-up companies. An important feature these problems share is that the firm learns about the potential profitability of the project throughout its life, but that...

This paper investigates the high-tech bubble in the late 1990s. We intend to identify possible causes and factors that lead to its formation. Using a large sample of 39,673 firm-level observations covering a wide range of firms, we find a positive relationship between venture capital investment...

This paper analyses a Pre-Seed Fund (quot;PSFquot;) government venture capital (quot;VCquot;) program for the purpose of improving our understanding about effective public policy towards entrepreneurial finance. The PSF program is a public-private partnership started in 2002 for the purpose of...

The valuation of high-risk technological ventures is more of an art than a science. In the absence of cash flow forecast and in view of the high uncertainty about the successful completion of the venture's Ramp;D effort, it is not possible to apply the Discounted-Cash-Flow (DCF) method, which is...

We derive a diffusive stochastic differential equation that describes the dynamics of the venture capital (VC) industry and use it to study two related issues that are concerned with the evolution of the venture capital and the high technology sectors over time. First, the short-term cyclical...

This paper demonstrates how the principal-agent problem between venture capitalists and their investors (limited partners) causes limited partner returns to depend on diversifiable risk. Our theory shows why the need for investors to motivate VCs alters the negotiations between VCs and...

Objective: The objective of the article is to investigate two issues. First, whether the Islamic bond (sukuk) ratings are the key determinant in affecting stock returns and, second, whether firm-characteristic variables moderate the sukuk ratings effect on stock returns. Research Design &...

This work makes a comparative analysis of the evaluation of an investment project, considering two approaches, one with cash flows at constant prices and the other at current prices. The goal is to determine which of these two approaches is best for project evaluation to make the right...