Institutions and venture capital

Establishing Nontraditional Venture Capital Institutions: Lessons Learned

Venture Capital Institutions and Venture Capitalists’ Investment Activities: An Empirical Study on China

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Capital Market Institutions and Venture Capital: Do They Affect Unemployment and Labour Demand?

This paper analyses the influence of the capital market on the labour market. Especially the impact of start-up financing on the structure of unemployment is of interest. We use a crosscountry panel data analysis to examine how venture capital investment influences disaggregate unemployment. As we expected, venture capital investment has different influences on sectoral-, educationaland occupat...

Venture capital and internationalization

Cross-border investments represent a substantial share of venture capital activities. We use a new and comprehensive dataset on worldwide investments to analyze the internationalization of venture capital financing. Our results from the perspectives of (i) venture capitalists, (ii) portfolio companies, (iii) portfolio companies’ countries and (iv) pairs of venture capitalists’ and portfolio com...

Innovations and Venture Capital

This paper develops a theory why innovation often takes place in new rms that depend overproportionally on external nance usually supplied by specialist intermediaries called venture capitalists. It is argued that innovative projects are characterized by two features: uncertainty that is resolved through a learning by doing process and private bene ts for the entrepreneur from running the proje...