There is little micro-economic evidence of the macroeconomic argument of excessive borrowing and overinvestment in East Asia before the crisis of 1997. Using firmlevel panel data-set from four Asian countries, this paper examines the efficiency of internal and external funds and compares the rates of return to these funds. We obtain selectivity-corrected random effects estimates of rates of ret...

We investigate whether the supply of venture capital (VC) is driven by spatial proximity between a VC company and the portfolio firm. Our analysis is based on information about VC investments in Germany between 2004 and 2009. We find that possible problems caused by the geographic distance to a portfolio firm seem to be overcome by syndication of investments with one of the VC firms located clo...