... company SPAC venture capital private equity IPO A special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) is a blank-check company that is immediately set up as a publicly-listed company with the sole intention to bring a so far private company public through a merger (Cumming et al., 2014...

...Samuele Murtinu In this article, I propose three new theoretical arguments pertaining to banks operating as investors in venture capital (“VC”) markets (bank-affiliated VC funds, or “BVCs”). First, I propose that BVCs exhibit agency costs in respect of promoting their business lines apart from VC...

.... Vismara 2023 C. Bellavitis, C. Fisch and S. Vismara Licensed re-use rights only Entrepreneurial finance venture capital supply negative interest rates central bank rates monetary policy G24 L26 O17 E1 Entrepreneurial ventures increase an economy’s capacity for wealth...

...R. Bianchini; A. Croce This paper provides insights on the role of environmental policies in promoting venture capital investments in companies involved in the development of clean technologies. Based on a supervised machine learning algorithm, we develop a fully replicable methodology to identify...

... topics in alternative investments. I explain how the papers in the special issue of the Review of Corporate Finance contribute to these research areas. I provide suggestions for future research. G24 G32 Private equity venture capital alternative investments entrepreneurial finance...

...Lukas Koenig; Hans-Peter Burghof Limited partners allocate capital into venture capital funds with the expectation of a risk-return profile matching the fund’s investment style in terms of startup investment stage, location, and industry. This paper draws a connection between style drifts...

.... Robinson Licensed re-use rights only G24 L26 Business incubator accelerator entrepreneurial finance angel investors venture capital entrepreneurship The development of an entrepreneurial venture is a very difficult process, especially for a first-time entrepreneur. Data show...