Public policy and the creation of active venture capital markets

Comparative Advantages of Public Loan and Public Equity Schemes in Venture Capital Markets

Using an agency framework, this paper examines advantages of offering venture capitalists a choice between public equity and loan schemes. Both schemes can be used to promote venture capital investments in hightechnology enterprises since they encourage inexperienced venture capitalists to accumulate experience. However, under both schemes, experienced venture capitalists save on management sup...

Venture Capital Exits in Emerging Markets

We analyze a sample of 336 venture capital exits from 12 Asia -Pacific countries: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. The data also comprise these countries’ venture capitalists’ investments in U.S.-based entrepreneurial firms. We consider the determinants of the types of entrepreneurial firms receiving ...

Path dependencies in venture capital markets

This paper examines the impact of venture capitalists’ reputation building and experience accumulation on the genesis of venture capital markets. Venture capitalists must accumulate experience to successfully support high-technology enterprises. They must build reputation, i.e., a track record for successfully financing high-technology enterprises, in order to raise new funds from outside inves...

Competition, Contracting, and Value Creation in Venture Capital Finance∗

We embed venture capital contracting in a search market environment where venture capitalists and entrepreneurs meet and bargain over optimal contracts. We find that both the composition and type of financial claims held by the venture capitalist and entrepreneur depend critically on the underlying market structure. In some cases both parties hold a mix of debt and equity while in others only o...

A study of New Zealand’s venture capital market and implications for public policy