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We show that cross-border LBO investments involving U.S. rather than non-U.S. private equity (PE) investors are more likely to have a successful exit (IPO or acquisition). Exogenous increases in effective proximity following the signing of “Open-Sky” agreements between the U.S. and target...
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We analyse the relationship between the extent of a firm’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its long-term survival probability. We conjecture that a better CSR rating is associated with a lower probability of corporate failure and a longer survival period. Consistent with this, we...
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We analyze the relationship between top management team human capital (“management quality”) and long-run firm performance using panel data from BoardEx. We control for the potentially endogenous matching between firm and management quality using as instrument a plausibly exogenous shock to...
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We analyse the relationship between the extent of a firm's corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its long-term survival probability. We conjecture that a better CSR rating is associated with a lower probability of corporate failure and a longer survival period. Consistent with this, we...
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We make use of hand-collected data on a large sample of entrepreneurial firms to analyze the effect of venture capital (VC) backing on the management quality of firms going public and the effect of both VC-backing and management quality on IPO variables. We hypothesize that VC-backing will be...
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