Purpose: This paper aims to explore the allocation of the exit value of a start-up company in market equilibrium between an angel investor and an entrepreneur in the very early-stage financing market. Design/methodology/approach: The theoretical model is established based on the two-sided...

Purpose: This study aims to investigate how the language used in US Title II equity crowdfunding campaign descriptions relates to campaign success. Design/methodology/approach: Data on 3,200 equity offerings from 12 Title II platforms was obtained from 2013 to 2016. The aspects of the campaign...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to show that in some industries the linear model may not reveal any significance link between exchange rate volatility and trade flows but once nonlinear adjustment of exchange rate volatility is introduced, the nonlinear model reveals significant link....

Purpose: This study aims to examine the volatility spillovers between Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC) and Ethereum (ETH) as they are related to structural breaks. Design/methodology/approach: This study examines the daily period from August 7, 2015 to July 10, 2018 by conducting causality-in-mean...

Purpose: This paper aims to identify and quantify directional predictability between returns and volume in major cryptocurrencies markets. Design/methodology/approach: The empirical analysis relies on the cross-quantilogram approach that allows one to assess the temporal (lag-lead) association...

Purpose: This paper aims to empirically examine the effect of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on cryptocurrency market returns with particular attention to top five cryptocurrencies and COVID-19 confirmed and death cases. Design/methodology/approach: The study applies the linear...

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate whether the interest rate differentials Granger cause expected change in the exchange rate during the COVID-19 period. The study examines if the investors in the international assets and exchange rate markets take advantages of the relevant information...

Purpose: This study aims to examine the effects of investor protection (PROT), internal and external corporate governance (CG) on private information-based trading (PIBT). Design/methodology/approach: This study uses a sample of 3,438 firms from 42 countries for the period 2002–2015 to...

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the use of convertible securities and control rights covenants for a sample of 53 Portuguese, Spanish and German venture capital (VC) firms. Design/methodology/approach: A relatively new methodology in business sciences – a fuzzy set qualitative...

Purpose: From a financial stability viewpoint, this paper aims to study cyclical interdependencies arising from the cross-holding of securities in the Colombian financial system. Design/methodology/approach: Cross-holding of securities in financial systems occurs when two financial institutions...