In this paper, we examine how venture capital portfolios with risk averse and risk seeking return characteristics are priced by the representative investor in public equity markets. We find only portfolios with risk seeking return characteristics are associated with a market skewness premium....

This paper finds that industry specialization within a fund is associated with superior project picking ability in the venture capital market. We find that ex-ante judgments of superior project quality are associated with positive abnormal performance for specialist funds, while they are...

There exists extant evidence which shows risk-return trade-offs within stock markets cannot be rationalized by assumptions of global risk aversion. The extent to which dearth of global risk aversion is evidence of transitions between risk averse and risk seeking preferences, or interactions...

This study examines the extent to which reputation constructs proposed in NAH (Nahata 2008) or OBH (Obrimah 2016a) exhibit uniqueness properties expected to be characteristic of reputation constructs. Empirical results provide evidence of concave (non-unique) relations between reputation...

Absent superior performance with respect to 'Portfolio Innovation Focus' (unexpected innovation), this study finds 'less experienced' ('competing') VCs, which only coinvest with other less experienced VCs, become less reputable than alternate less experienced ('non-competing') VCs who coinvest...

PurposeThis study examines whether the skewness of bid-ask spreads (bid-ask skewness), an information factor, can outperform the skewness of the exchange rate process (FX skewness) - a momentum variable - at forecasting future realizations of exchange rates.Design/Methodology/ApproachEmpirical...

Let IPO volume simply be denoted `volume'. This study finds low and high volume regimes within stock markets are, respectively characterized by low or high valuation uncertainty risk, with outcome underpricing is higher yet more disparate in context of high volume regimes. This finding questions...

This study develops an empirical framework for assessment of effects of inflows of foreign capital on monetary equilibriums in countries that operate hybrid exchange rate regimes. Empirical findings obtained using the framework demonstrate "distortions" to inflows of Foreign Direct Investment...

This study develops a theoretical model that parameterizes cross-sectional differences in opportunity set risk within venture capital markets. The theoretical model shows clusters of venture capital activity can be induced by non-monotonic relations that obtain between search costs for projects...

This study develops a survey instrument structure that generates many stylized findings in the literature and in preliminary tests passes theoretical litmus tests for robustness of estimates of preference for the protean or promised path of career advancement. Embedded in the study is an...