This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the factors that determine fundraising and investment in the private equity market in Europe. These are analysed separately, since the lags faced in this activity determine the existence of two separate markets. As a result, private equity institutions deal with different agents, namely investors (fundraising) and firms (investment), whose l...

This paper provides a summary of what is known from social science research about the effects parents have on the donations of their children. It then goes on to summarize two on-going research projects. The first project provides estimates of the strength of the relationship between the charitable giving of parents and that of their adult children. The second provides estimates of the effect o...

Nonprofit board members and administrators have a responsibility to 1) ensure that their organization’s return on investment (ROI) in fundraising is reasonable through good internal management practices, and 2) communicate to their constituents and the general public that fundraising is an investment in achieving the goals, objectives and anticipated outcomes described in the organization’s str...

We examine the influence of venture capital on patented inventions in the United States across twenty industries over three decades. We address concerns about causality in several ways, including exploiting a 1979 policy shift that spurred venture capital fundraising. We find that increases in venture capital activity in an industry are associated with significantly higher patenting rates. Whil...

Incomplete information about (independent) private valuations of charities by potential donors provides an important strategic rationale for announcement of donations during fundraising drives and explains why donors may add to their initial contributions after learning about contributions made by others. In a two-stage fundraising drive where potential donors may contribute at either or both s...

OBJECTIVE To propose a measure (index) of expected risks to evaluate and follow up the performance analysis of research projects involving financial and adequate structure parameters for its development. METHODS A ranking of acceptable results regarding research projects with complex variables was used as an index to gauge a project performance. In order to implement this method the ulcer ind...

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) play a key role in biodiversity conservation. The majority of these organisations rely on public donations to fund their activities, and therefore fundraising success is a determinant of conservation outcomes. In spite of this integral relationship, the key principals for fundraising success in conservation are still guided by expert opinion and anecdotal e...

This paper reviews recent research results of the venture capital field. The paper indicates that main contents of the theory are that how agency problems brought about by the information asymmetry through the contract design are solved and the value-added management service is provided. A number of empirical evidences provided by documents from some aspects such as the fund raising and the sel...

The aim of this paper is to identify the key factors that lie behind venture capital/private equity fundraising in countries where there is scarce and asymmetric information about final returns. The main contribution of this paper is to explain fundraising by means of variables directly related to the venture capital process rather than by macroeconomic ones. We use panel data techniques on dat...