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In this paper we analyze how different types of venture capital investments - private, public and indirect public - affect performance of portfolio companies. We use data on more than 20,000 VC deals in Europe between 2000 and 2018 and we hand collected a unique dataset on the institutional...
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We assess whether a VC’s intrinsic commitment to a startup affects investment performance. We proxy for climate change commitment using the political contributions to democrats of the lead VC person on a deal. We find investments by democrats in climate-related startups have 8% higher...
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This paper introduces crowdfunding as a concept and model for the evolution of investment banking. Crowdfunding, an application of crowdsourcing, is defined as one party's attempt to finance a project by offering three types of investment opportunities to potential investors. The investment...
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This paper examines the role of intermediation for the efficiency of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) markets for startups, with an application to Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). ICO intermediation is a contentious issue. Existing research fails to explain the trade-off between intermediated and...
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This paper empirically examines business starts, deaths, venture capital and patents in relation to U.S. public policy. The most consistent evidence in the data shows that lower levels of labor frictions and higher levels of SBIR awards are associated with more business starts and higher levels...
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productive entrepreneurship, employment, GDP, industrial sophistication, innovation, crime and certain types of violence (sexual … regional strategies aimed to strengthen institutional capacities, promote productive entrepreneurship and reduce organized … productive entrepreneurship in Colombia. Three composite indices based upon international assessments or seminal studies were …
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This paper summarizes the role of entrepreneurship in the East German transformation process that followed the … Germany, newly emerging firms created the major share of employment opportunities, while incumbent socialist firms shed vast … policy should have a special focus on entrepreneurship. In particular, it should try to utilize and strengthen the …
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deemed to be of particular importance for entrepreneurship, innovation-based firm growth and its ensuing impact on the … economy. Particular aspects of entrepreneurship and economic dynamism are covered by pairs (or in one case three) coauthors …, considerable differences remain. These constitute the basis for the concluding policy discussion. -- Entrepreneurship ; Innovation …
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national boundaries between religion and entrepreneurship. Definitions of entrepreneurship are taken from the Global … Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) studies for 2011 and 2012, focusing on the individual rather than on the business venture. Recent data … cultural environment for entrepreneurship. They also suggest that policy-makers may wish to pay closer attention to the …
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Objective: The objective of the article is to test the bidirectional association of institutions and entrepreneurship … role of institutions in entrepreneurial activity, while ignoring the role of entrepreneurship in the building of … institutions. We estimate how institutions and entrepreneurship relate to each other and contribute to economic growth. For the …
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