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Digital trade in Europe and Central Asia

Tan, Shawn W. - 2017

The Internet greatly increases firms' potential to produce new goods and service for new markets. The Internet is also … their products and deliver them over long distances. This paper considers how the Internet can increase exports by reducing … Internet is making firms more mobile. Despite the enormous potential benefits, the use of the Internet to conduct digital trade …

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Venture Capital in Europe's Common Market: A Quantitative Description

Schertler, Andrea - 2001

This paper offers a quantitative description of European private equity markets and compares the recent development in these markets with the development of the US venture capital market. Moreover, the paper addresses the differences between private equity investors acting in a single national...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260558

Reducing Start-Up Costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labour Market

Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003

Starting a firm with expansive potential is an option for educated and high-skilled workers. This option serves as an insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within a matching model that reducing the start-up costs...

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Reducing start-up costs for new firms: The double dividend on the labor market

Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293727

Reducing start-up costs for New Firms: The double dividend on the labor market

Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003

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Private equity returns and disclosure around the world

Walz, Uwe; Cumming, Douglas - 2004

We study the returns the venture capital and private equity investment from 221 venture capital and private equity funds that are part of 72 venture capital and private equity firms, 5040 entrepreneurial firms (3826 venture capital and 1214 private equity), and spanning 32 years (1971 - 2003)...

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Legality and venture governance around the world

Cumming, Douglas; Schmidt, Daniel; Walz, Uwe - 2004

We analyze governance with a dataset on investments of venture capitalists in 3848 portfolio firms in 39 countries from North and South America, Europe and Asia spanning 1971-2003. We find that cross-country differences in Legality have a significant impact on the governance structure of...

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Venture capital and internationalization

Schertler, Andrea; Tykvová, Tereza - 2009

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...

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Venture Capital in Bank- and Market-based Economies

Saillard, Adeline; Url, Thomas - 2011

The determinants of venture capital investment have attracted a significant amount of attention from both academics and policymakers. We use a version of the Keuschnigg-Nielsen model for venture-capital financed projects to condition our analysis on a reasonable set of exogenous variables but we...

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The internationalization of venture capital and private equity

Aizenman, Joshua; Kendall, Jake - 2008

This paper investigates the internationalization of venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) investments. We derive flows between countries of VC and PE investments worldwide, relying on comprehensive firm-level data sources, covering three decades and about 100 countries. A gravity analysis...

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