Syndication and Foreignness: Venture Capital Investments in Emerging and Developed Markets

This paper aims to understand when foreign and domestic firms have different likelihoods of syndication in venture capital investments. Although current theory may imply that foreign firms face the liability of foreignness that constrain their syndication opportunities, empirical studies provide quite mixed evidence. To address this issue, this study emphasizes the contingency roles of settings, experience, and reputation. In particular, I argue that foreign firms are more likely to syndicate, compared with domestic ones, when focal investments are less mature, or when local markets are colder and less capitalized. However, the difference in syndication between foreign and domestic firms decreases when they accumulate more experience or when they acquire higher reputation. I find empirical evidence from a sample of venture capital investments in China, UK, and the Netherlands. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed at the end.     

Venture Capital Syndication: Synthesis and future directions

This paper reviews and synthesizes the extant literature on venture capital syndication. By considering the questions of how, why and when syndication affects the performance of venture capitalist (VC) firms and their portfolio ventures, a schematic structure of the syndication literature is formed and areas for further research are identified. The results of the review show that, while the venture‐level aspects are relatively well understood, the current literature lacks an understanding of how and why syndication affects the performance of VC firms. This suggests that more attention should be directed towards syndication as a component of the overall strategy of VC firms.     

经济政策不确定性与风险承担:基于风险投资的证据

将经济政策不确定性引入风险投资的决策模型,从理论上证明经济政策不确定性既直接降低风险承担,也负向影响风险投资退出绩效间接降低风险承担.利用1996年~2016年中国经济政策不确定性与风险投资的匹配数据,实证结果支持理论预期.研究发现,经济政策不确定性较高时,风险承担显著更低,表现为风险投资对早期阶段企业和高科技企业的投资比例下降.退出绩效在经济政策不确定性与风险承担之间具有中介作用.经济政策不确定性较高时,风险投资通过IPO或者并购成功退出的交易数目更少、退出期限更长、退出收益更低,因而降低风险承担研究表明,为引导风险投资支持早期高科技企业,除通过财政、税收等政策扶 持奖励风险投资外,政府有必要维持相关政策的稳定性和延续性.     

基于信号传递过程中学习效应的联合创业投资决策

由于创业投资项目的产出具有较强的不确定性,单个创业投资公司受自身资源的制约很难对项目做出准确的评估,通常需要联合其他创业投资公司进行联合投资。文章从信息经济学的视角出发,通过引入创业投资家的风险规避成本、努力成本和战略收益,建立联合创业投资决策的三阶段模型,应用信号传递中的学习效应分析了创业投资中的联合投资决策过程。主导型创业投资公司通过接收跟随型创业投资公司对投资项目的评估信号,利用贝叶斯法则修正先验概率,然后再重新调整对项目的评估,通过联合投资伙伴间信号传递的学习效应寻找联合创业投资的合作区间,进而提高创业投资的成功率。最后,通过算例分析验证了理论模型的有效性。     

风险资本联合投资的激励契约设计

针对风险资本在投资中期或晚期的联合投资激励契约问题,在风险投资家对项目已作了初步融资和了解条件下,建立了风险投资家之间的联合投资契约模型。分对称和非对称信息两种情形,就如何设计最优契约才能使联合投资双方都能真实地显示他们的信号进行了研究,分析了风险投资家的职业能力对联合投资契约的影响,并用算例进行了验证,为风险资本中期或晚期的联合投资提供了决策依据。     

International venture capital research: From cross-country comparisons to crossing borders

Venture capital (VC) has become an international phenomenon, and VC firms are a specific kind of service firm whose characteristics have distinctive implications for international behaviour. There is now a disparate body of research on international aspects of VC across a number of disciplines comprising finance, economics, strategy, entrepreneurship, international business and economic geography. A novel aspect of this paper is that we review and synthesize this disparate literature. A number of research gaps and limitations in the theoretical and methodological approaches involved in previous studies are identified and suggestions made for further research. We show that the vast majority of the literature relates to cross-country comparisons; that is, macro-level comparisons of VC industries across different countries and micro-level comparisons of VC behaviour across countries. From our review of the literature, we argue that an under-researched area concerns the influence of institutional contexts, especially the role of social networks and cultures. Furthermore, our review of the literature indicates that there is a major research gap in relation to work dealing with the crossing of country borders by VC firms. We suggest that resource-based, capabilities, institutional and network theories may be offer insights to further our understanding of the behaviour of VC firms in this area.     

创业投资引导基金补偿机制对创投机构网络位置的影响研究

随着创投市场的网络化趋势越来越突出,提升网络位置成为创投机构的重要竞争战略之一。论文基于激励视角研究创业投资引导基金(简称引导基金)补偿机制对创投机构网络位置的影响。通过私募通数据库搜集大样本数据构造匹配样本,使用双重差分模型,研究结论表明:(1)引导基金参股时为私人资本提供收益补偿、固定收益补偿、或者收益补偿加上固定收益补偿会提升创投机构的网络位置,为私人资本提供亏损补偿、亏损补偿加上固定收益补偿、或者亏损补偿加上收益补偿加上固定收益补偿则不会提升创投机构的网络位置;(2)相比于参股国有背景创投机构而言,引导基金参股非国有背景创投机构时提供收益补偿、固定收益补偿、或者收益补偿加上固定收益补偿对网络位置的提升作用更明显。论文拓宽了创投机构提升网络位置的战略选择,对引导基金主管部门选择补偿机制也有一定的参考意义。     

风险投资的地理亲近：对中国风险投资的实证研究

风险投资的地理亲近是指风险投资机构倾向于投资其所在地周边的企业。利用CVSource数据库,搜集2010年至2012年623家风险投资机构对1 020家企业的2 973轮风险投资交易事件信息,采用1：1配伍设计,运用STATA进行relogit回归分析,研究空间距离对投资交易达成可能性的影响。研究结果表明,随着两地空间距离的增加,风险投资交易达成的可能性降低,投资金额对空间距离与投资发生可能性之间关系起倒U形的调节作用,风险投资机构的经验调节二者之间的反向作用,经验丰富的风险投资机构不很在意目标企业的位置,其经验可以在某种程度上消除距离带来的不利影响。     

基于数据包络分析的风险投资环境有效性研究

各地区特有的经济、科技、金融等环境构成了当地的风险投资环境体系,风险投资环境体系的改善会直接促进当地风险投资的发展。将数据包络方法(DEA)应用到地区风险投资环境评价中,对我国19个省份(直辖市)的风险投资环境有效性进行了实证研究,并对风险投资环境非DEA有效的地区提出了相应的发展建议。     

风险投资后期进入对企业创新绩效的影响研究--选择效应抑或增值效应?

由于上市带来的财富效应高于培育创新型企业的增值效应,中国资本市场信息不对称高,知识产权保护较弱,现阶段中国风险投资主要集中于创新型企业后期进入。本文首先用描述性统计揭示了中国风险投资后期进入创新型企业的特征;其次,阐述了中国风险投资后期进入对企业创新选择效应和增值效应的影响机理;最后,以创业板2009-2014年上市企业为例,采用双重差分倾向得分匹配法(PSM-DID),验证风险投资后期进入对创新型企业研发投入和研发绩效的影响,研究结果表明:后期进入的风险投资进入创新型企业前,对研发投入具有显著的选择效应,但对专利申请量的选择效应不显著;后期进入的风险投资进入后,对研发投入和专利申请量的增值效应均不显著。     

Employment Relationships and Firm Innovation: The Double Role of Human Capital

We examine how employment relationships and human capital influence innovation in a sample of Spanish firms. Previous research has indicated that human capital directly affects innovation, but few studies have considered human capital as a variable that mediates or moderates the effects of other variables on innovation. We tested our hypotheses using a sample of 150 innovative Spanish firms and confirmed that, while human capital favours innovations, employment relationships are not directly associated with innovation unless they take human capital into account. Specifically, our analyses suggest that human capital mediates the relationship between a mutual investment employment relationship and innovation, which is characterized by high levels of incentives and expectations. However, we also found that human capital plays a moderating role when organizations develop an employment relationship characterized by low investments in personnel but high expectations from their work (the underinvestment model). We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these results.     

创新水平差异对融资方式选择影响——基于风险资本与银行债务资本的比较研究

本文通过构建一个模型分析了在存在双重道德风险的情况下,项目的创新水平对企业家选择融资方式的影响,研究认为在较低的创新水平下企业家将会选择银行债务融资;较高的创新水平企业家将会选择风险资本融资。模型进一步分析了创新水平对风险资本融资融资契约中风险资本家股权份额分配的影响,研究认为创新水平的增加将会引起风险资本家股权份额的增加。     

Social Increasing Returns and the Effects of Immigration on the Host Country Economy

In this paper we analyse the impact of both the number of immigrants and their human capital on the welfare of the host economy. We will show that in the presence of ‘social increasing returns’ in human and physical capital accumulation, arising from a labour market characterized by a costly search and by randomness of the matching technology, immigrants’ skill level may influence the investments in human capital of natives as well as the investments in physical capital. We will find that the immigrants’ human capital interacts with social increasing returns making them stronger or weaker according to the level of immigrants’ human capital relative to that of natives. If immigrants have a higher level of human capital, increasing returns are accelerated, while if immigrants’ human capital is lower, increasing returns are weakened if not reversed. The consequence of this behaviour is that in the first case immigration has a positive impact on native welfare and there is a positive interrelation between the skills of natives, the skills of immigrants and the firms’ level of physical capital. In the second case immigration may have a negative impact on the welfare of natives, on the skills of native workers and on the physical capital of firms.     

风险投资机构的网络位置对IPO期限的影响

研究了风险投资机构的网络位置对IPO期限的影响作用与影响机理。运用清科数据库2000年1月1日至2010年12月31日的数据,研究发现风险投资机构的网络位置对IPO期限有显著影响--风险投资机构的网络中心性越高,IPO速度越快。为进一步揭示影响机理,以Heckman模型为基础构建了一个两步回归模型。回归结果表明：网络中心性高的风险投资机构既可以选择到高质量的风险项目,也可以为所投资的风险项目提供高质量的增值服务,因而可以实现更快的IPO。     

A challenging marketplace for venture capital

This article looks at the contemporary situation facing the U.K. venture capital industry as it enters its second decade of activity. After 10 years of substantial growth, the industry is starting to mature. Accordingly, in an increasingly competitive marketplace, U.K. venture capital firms are having to address seriously strategic issues of product and market choice in order to meet the high investment expectations placed on them by their funders. There is evidence that the industry is already concentrating its finances into a small number of larger firms. It is likely that these better resourceed firms will have material advantages in initiating both product and market innovations. However, this concentration is unlikely to improve the supply of venture capital funds to start-up and other early stage, high risk ventures.     

风险投资合约及治理机制实证研究综述

风险投资合约及治理机制是现代金融合约理论重要和新兴的研究领域.面对创业项目的高风险性,风险投资家通过复杂的合约订立和阶段性的资金投入,融合与创业者的代理冲突.重点评述了国内外风险投资合约及其治理机制的相关实证研究成果,指出了未来的理论和实证研究方向.     

Evaluation frequency and evaluator’s experience: the case of venture capital investment firms and monitoring intensity in stage financing

In this paper we analyze the relation between an investor’s experience and the intensity of monitoring activities. Specifically, we consider venture capitalist firms and their choices of time intervals between financing rounds. We hypothesize that more industry investment experience leads to longer time intervals between financing rounds and hence, lower monitoring intensity. Using a unique data set of venture capital firms from Germany during the period from 1995 to 2005 we find evidence for our hypothesis that in a given time frame more experienced investors evaluate and monitor their investments less often than less experienced investors. In addition, VC investors pool their experience and share the risk involved in investing by forming syndicates which reduces the incentives to monitor subsequently. On the basis of our results we argue that the optimal frequency of performance evaluations should take into account the experience of the evaluator.     

AN ANALYSIS OF SHAREHOLDER AGREEMENTS

Shareholder agreements govern the relations among shareholders in privately held firms, such as joint ventures and venture capital‐backed companies. We provide an economic explanation for key clauses in such agreements—namely, put and call options, tag‐along and drag‐along rights, demand and piggy‐back rights, and catch‐up clauses. In a dynamic moral hazard setting, we show that these clauses can ensure that the contract parties make efficient ex ante investments in the firm. They do so by constraining renegotiation. In the absence of the clauses, ex ante investment would be distorted by unconstrained renegotiation aimed at (i) precluding value‐destroying ex post transfers, (ii) inducing value‐increasing ex post investments, or (iii) precluding hold‐out on value‐increasing sales to a trade buyer or the IPO market. (JEL: G34)     

On Labor Policies Affecting Investment in General Human Capital

Abstract. This paper develops a search model including workers’ investments in general human capital and investigates the effects of labor policies such as subsidies to human capital investment and unemployment benefits on the accumulation of human capital. It is shown that the equilibrium is not optimal because workers underinvest in human capital or firms open too many vacancies in comparison with the number of unemployed workers. Comparative statics show that an increase in subsidies to human capital investment adds to the number of vacancies per unemployed worker and to workers’ investments in human capital and that an increase in unemployment benefits decreases them. Finally, labor policies that remove the distortion are explored.     

Can external corporate venturing broaden firm's technological scope? The role of complementary assets

This study applies two theoretical perspectives—resource-based view (RBV) and organizational learning—to explore how a firm's external corporate venturing (CV) influences its technological scope. Using data from 583 electronics and information technology firms in Taiwan for the period from 1997 to 2006, the results indicate that external CVs facilitate an established firm's broadening of its technological scope. Moreover, this study calls into question the idea that a firm's decisions regarding technological scope may be due to a specific factor that governs the extent of technological specialization and diversification. We identify this factor as the complementary assets of established firms. This study, thus, investigates whether complementary assets moderate the relationship between external CV in established firms and those firms’ technological scope. The analytical results also support the idea that increasing investments in specialized complementary assets will urge firms engaged in external CV to concentrate on their technological scope. Therefore, this study addresses the notion that concentrated technological scope is the conjunction of technological capabilities and complementary assets, not determined by either individually.