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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bernstein, Shai, Giroud, Xavier, Townsend, Richard R.
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Finance Association/Wiley 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101187
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4620-4151