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We investigate the relationship between competition and firm specialization in the venture capital (VC) market. Staged financing motivates VC firms to fund entrepreneurs in various states of maturity: startup/seed, early, growth, and so forth, and leads to stage specialization. Contrary to the...
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Do policies that promote credit access have an impact on targeted borrowers? To address this question, we develop a theoretical model of information production, regulation and bank competition and test its predictions using the Community Reinvestment Act's small businesses lending program. The...
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We consider a principal-agent model to provide a general analysis of how risk affects incentives of firms who invest in cost-reducing R&D and compete in the product market. We specify the conditions under which higher risk reduces incentives of all firms. We also examine the conditions under...
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We examine the effect of a competitive supply of venture capital (VC) on the exits (IPO or M&A) of startups. We develop a matching model with double-sided moral hazard, and identify a novel differential effect of VC competition on the success of startups. Using VC data, we find evidence for this...
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We investigate the relationship between competition and stage specialization in the venture capital (VC) market. A typical successful company goes through multiple stages of VC investments, but an average VC firm specializes and participates only in a subset of these stages. We hypothesize that...
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