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The Impact and Functional Forms of the Major Determinants of Performance of Informal Venture Capitalists’ Investments

Capizzi, Vincenzo - 2013

This paper aims at providing evidence on the activity of business angels, using a unique dataset gathered during the five-year time period 2007-2011 with the support of IBAN (Italian Business Angels Network). In particular, the paper studies how characteristics of the investor and of the...

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Strategic Versus Financial Investors : The Role of Strategic Objectives in Financial Contracting

Arping, Stefan - 2010

Strategic investors, such as corporate venture capitalists, engage in the financing of start-up firms to complement their core businesses and to facilitate the internalization of externalities. We argue that while strategic objectives make it more worthwhile for an investor to elicit high...

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The Returns to Early-Stage Investment in Innovation

Kisseleva, Katja - 2020

histories of each firm and study performance measures at the transaction and investment levels. Many investments result in total … differing returns even in the same investment. This arises not just because they invest on different terms, but because they … indicative of the market frictions associated with early-stage investment in innovation …

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The Returns of Business Angels’ Investments and Their Major Determinants

Capizzi, Vincenzo - 2016

This paper aims to provide evidence on the performance of business angels' investments, using a unique dataset covering a representative sample of the main actors of the Italian informal venture capital market. In particular, through an econometric analysis we investigate the returns on business...

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The Role of Domestic and Cross-Border Venture Capital Investors in the Growth of Portifolio Companies

Devigne, David - 2016

and payroll expenses in 761 European technology companies from the year of initial venture capital investment up to seven …

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Venture Capital Investment and Labor Market Performance : New Empirical Evidence for OECD Countries

Belke, Ansgar Hubertus; Schaal, Andreas Gerhard - 2021

Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...

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Venture Capital Investment and Labor Market Performance : A Panel Data Analysis

Belke, Ansgar Hubertus; Fehn, Rainer; Foster-McGregor, Neil - 2021

Labor market performance has differed considerably between OECD countries over the last two decades. The focus of the literature so far has been to ask whether these differences can be explained by varying degrees of labor market rigidities and generosity of welfare states. This paper takes a...

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Fishing Among Sharks – GP-LP Investment Syndication in Later-stage Venture Capital

Achleitner, Ann‐Kristin; Braun, Reiner; Keppler, Henry - 2021

, while LPs wish to play a more passive role. More broadly, we find that the investment context, particularly the target …

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From State to Market: A Survey of Empirical Studies on Privatization

Megginson, William L.; Netter, Jeffry M. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999

, three, and five-year investment horizons. …

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Does venture capital investment spur employment growth?

Belke, Ansgar; Fehn, Rainer; Foster-McGregor, Neil - 2003

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