This book aims to bring together different contributions highlighting how the recent changes that modify universities’ activities, such as the necessity to internationalize and crucially rely on third party funding, and the new entrepreneurial trajectories stemming from the recent...

A number of papers in finance study information cascades among investors, especially in the IPO setting. These studies typically differentiate between institutional vs retail investors, as this is the only information available to potential backers. Life information available in equity...

More reputable underwriters are paid more for taking companies public, because they are expected to provide a better service. However, independently from their reputation, underwriters provide different optional services to the firms they take public. We question whether the services provided...

We apply insights from research in social psychology and labor economics to the domain of entrepreneurial finance and investigate how founder chief executive officers’ (founder CEOs’) facial attractiveness influences firm valuation. Leveraging the novel context of initial coin offerings...

We apply insights from research in social psychology and labor economics to the domain of entrepreneurial finance and investigate how founder chief executive officers’ (founder CEOs’) facial attractiveness influences firm valuation. Leveraging the novel context of initial coin offerings...

We assess the impact of negative central bank interest rates on venture capital (VC) markets. Using data from 32 countries from 2004 to 2019, we find that interest rates have a significant effect on the functioning of VC markets. Higher interest rates are associated with higher demand for...

The nominee approach to equity crowdfunding pools all crowd investors into one (nominee) account where typically the platform acts as the legal owner but the crowd retains beneficial ownership. The platform plays an active digital corporate governance role that simultaneously enfranchises crowd...