This work analyses the effect of informal risk capital financing on a firm's investment/cash flow sensitivity (ICFS) in a sample of 498 Italian privately held high-tech entrepreneurial ventures (HTEVs) observed from 1996 to 2008. To detect financial constraints, we resort to an error correction...

The present work analyses the effect of public finance on firm investments in a longitudinal sample of 293 Italian unlisted owner-managed, new technology-based firms (NTBFs), observed over a 10-year period from 1994 to 2003. We find that large, old NTBFs and those located in the north of Italy...

The paper analyses the effect of public subsidies on firm investments, using a longitudinal sample of two hundred ninety-four Italian unlisted owner-managed new-technology- based firms (NTBFs) observed from 1994 to 2003. We have adopted a modified version of the Euler equation and the use of...

This work analyses the effect of public subsidies on firms' investments and investment–cash flow sensitivity in a longitudinal sample of 288 Italian unlisted non-venture capital backed owner-managed new-technology-based firms (NTBFs), observed over a 15-year period from 1994 to 2008. Seventy...

"This book synthesises current knowledge on entrepreneurial finance. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the state-of-the-art in entrepreneurial finance, with a focus on its ecosystem and main players. It analyses different channels of funding for young and growing ventures,...

This work studies the extent to which the investments of young high-tech companies in Europe are supported by public venture capital (PVC) financing. We estimate an investment equation derived from a sales accelerator model, and benchmark PVC to the most well-known category of venture capital:...

This work studies how and when venture capital (VC) affects the investment of its portfolio firms. We estimate an Error Correction Model that takes into account the non-linearity of the investment curve on a sample of 361 young high-tech firms in 6 European countries. The direct effect of VC on...