The Impact of Venture Capital Monitoring

We show that venture capitalists' (VCs) on-site involvement with their portfolio companies leads to an increase in both innovation and the likelihood of a successful exit. We rule out selection effects by exploiting an exogenous source of variation in VC involvement: the introduction of new air...

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Main Authors: Bernstein, Shai (Author), Giroud, Xavier (Contributor), Townsend, Richard R. (Author)
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Finance Association/Wiley, 2016-02-16T14:13:48Z.
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