Logit-model for predicting startup’s venture funding

Agency Costs of Venture Capitalist Control in Startups

Early Employees of Venture-Backed Startups: Selection and Wage Differentials

While much attention has been paid to company founders, very little is known regarding the first set of non-founder employees who join high-growth startups ("early employees"). This paper explores the wage differential between venture capital-backed startups and established firms given that the two firm types compete for talent. Using data on graduating college students from MIT, I find that VC...

The Antitrust Logit Model for Predicting Unilateral Competitive Effects

The ALM is a logit model, which is a particular random utility choice model. In that broad class of models, each consumer makes a single choice from a “choice set,” generally consisting of certain “inside goods” and an “outside good,” reflecting the choice of “none of the above.” While similar in concept, the inside goods may be more or less inclusive than a relevant antitrust market. Because c...

Designing a Valuation Model for Petroleum Startups

Development of downstream operations in the Iran's petroleum industry has always been considered as a necessity in to create more value-added. One of ways to accomplish the misson, especially in the current situation, is exploiting the capacity of petroleum startups. Considering that these companies need to be valued for financing, and since the traditional valuation methods do not provide effi...

Predicting Currency Crises with a Nested Logit Model

This paper is the first to apply a nested logit model to measure the probabilities of speculative attacks and the probabilities of successful defenses by the central banks. This model allows us to predict not only the probability of speculative attacks but also the probability of successful defenses given attacks. Also, it provides a framework to analyze the degree to which different factors af...