The purpose of this monograph is to provide an overview of the IPO literature since 2000.
The fewer numbers of companies going public in recent years has raised many questions …

In this article, I review the theoretical and empirical literature on the effects of public and
private equity markets on firm behavior, emphasizing the consequences that emerge from …

Venture capital is associated with some of the most high-growth and influential firms in the
world. Academics and practitioners have effectively articulated the strengths of the venture …

This commentary explores the manner in which the current COVID-19 crisis is affecting key
sources of entrepreneurial finance in the United Kingdom. We posit that the unique …

Patents and citations are powerful tools increasingly used in financial economics (and
management research more broadly) to understand innovation. Biases may result, however …

We use an experimental conjoint analysis to investigate the investment criteria of 749 private
equity investors, distinguishing between family offices, business angels, venture capital …

We examine the effects of diversity in the board of directors on corporate policies and risk.
Using a multidimensional measure, we find that greater board diversity leads to lower …

When they lack resources to commercialize science, entrepreneurs rely on intermediary
organizations often within their local ecosystems. This paper seeks to improve our …

We organized business associations for the owner-managers of young Chinese firms to
study the effect of business networks on firm performance. We randomized 2,820 firms into …

This paper uses a randomized field experiment to identify which start‐up characteristics are
most important to investors in early‐stage firms. The experiment randomizes investors' …