Corporate innovation is an increasingly important topic that has attracted great attention from academic researchers in financial economics in recent years. Although the top three finance journals (i.e. the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial...

The current expansion of China's venture capital (VC) market has chugged into its 10th year in 2019. The mystery of developing from nothing to the second largest market in the world yet fails to make China's VC market more attractive to researchers in this field. Our chapter is attempting to...

We analyze the role of trademarks in entrepreneurial finance, hypothesizing that trademarks play two important roles: a “protective” role, leading to better product market performance; and an “informational” role, signaling higher firm quality to investors. We develop testable hypotheses...