Gefen, Ofir; Reeb, David M.; Sulaeman, Johan - 2023
We conduct a randomized field experiment (RFE) to assess whether startup firms perceive accounting expertise as an … interest in them with a proposition to meet a bogus investor. The experiment has high response rates, with 4,535 (33 …-up experiment with 3,443 new startups to distinguish between accounting and general business expertise using a master’s in business …