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We investigate whether syndication networks among banks influence the financing of leveraged buyouts (LBO). We find … that lead banks serve as important intermediaries between the supply (banks in an LBO loan syndicate) and demand (targets … asymmetries between the parties involved, especially when prior bank-borrower relationships are weak or non-existent. Banks that …
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The paper evaluates whether government intervention through the subsidization of business angel networks (BANs) enhances regional economic growth in Flanders, Belgium. It shows that, firstly, BANs reduce the information and financing problems entrepreneurial companies face. Secondly, that these...
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High growth entrepreneurial companies need external financial resources as their internally generated cash flows are typically smaller than their investment opportunities, but they may be faced with finance constraints due to market imperfections, such as asymmetric information and transaction...
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This paper studies how the presence of cross-border as opposed to domestic venture capital investors is associated with the growth of portfolio companies. For this purpose, we use a longitudinal research design and track sales, total assets and payroll expenses in 761 European technology...
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This study explores the impact of bargaining power of venture capital (VC) firms on the valuation of their portfolio companies. We argue that VC firm types with greater bargaining power vis-à-vis the entrepreneur negotiate lower valuations compared to VC firm types with less bargaining power....
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Using a resource dependence perspective, we theorize and show that non-venture-capital-backed ventures founded in U.S. states with a lower availability of venture capital (VC) are more likely to relocate to California (CA) or Massachusetts (MA) — the two VC richest states — compared to...
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We explain the returns obtained on venture capital (VC) investments in all VC backed companies going public in the U.S. between 2003 and 2017. Using a unique data set of 1,921 investor-IPO returns, we show that later investments obtain higher returns, even after controlling for observed and...
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