Venture capital in Europe [electronic resource] / edited by Greg N. Gregoriou, Maher Kooli, Roman Kraeussl.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Venture capital in Europe : closing the gap to the U.S. / Andreas Oehler ... [et al.] -- Public venture capital across Europe : a 15-year perspective / Christof Beuselinck and Sophie Manigart -- Why venture capital markets are well developed in some countries but comparatively small in others : evidence from Europe / Kuntara Pukthuanthong, Dolruedee Thiengtham, and Thomas Walker -- A survey of the venture capital industry in Central and Eastern Europe / Rachel A. Campbell and Roman Kraeussl -- Venture capital in European transition economies : a scoring system / Robert W. McGee -- Recommendations for the development of a European venture capital regulatory corpus : lessons from the U.S. / Edward J. Lusk, Gregor Schmidt, and Michael Halperin -- Productivity growth in Spanish venture-backed firms / Luisa Alemany and José Martí -- Is the Spanish public sector effective in backing venture capital? / Marina Balboa, José Martí, and Nina Zieling -- A review of the venture capital industry in Italy / Fabio Bertoni ... [et al.] -- Exit strategy and the intensity of exit-directed activities among venture capital-backed entrepreneurs in Sweden / Anders Isaksson -- Private equity fund managers do not overvalue their company investments / Tom Weidig ... [et al.] -- A search model of venture capital, entrepreneurship, and unemployment / Robin Boadway, Oana Secrieru, and Marianne Vigneault -- Capital structure in new technology-based firms : venture capital-backed versus non-venture capital-backed firms in the Irish software sector / Teresa Hogan and Elaine Hutson -- German business ventures : entrepreneurs, success factors, and financing / Ann-Kristin Achleitner ... [et al.] -- Financing practices in the German venture capital industry : an empirical study / Andreas Bascha and Uwe Walz -- Covenants in venture capital contracts : theory and empirical evidence from the German capital market / Ron C. Antonczyk, Wolfgang Breuer, and Klaus Mark -- Supply and demand of venture capital for biotech firms : the case of the Belgian regions of Wallonia and Brussels / Véronique Bastin ... [et al.] -- Simple and cross-efficiency of European venture capital firms using data envelopment analysis / Greg N. Gregoriou ... [et al.] -- Agency theory and management buy-out : the role of venture capitalists / Hans Bruining and Arthur Herst -- Does the value of venture capital vary over the investee life cycle? Evidence from Irish investees / Nancy Huyghebaert and Sheila O'Donohoe -- German banks as venture capitalists / Tereza Tykvová -- Long-run venture-backed IPO performance analysis of Italian family-owned firms : what role do closed-end funds play? / Stefano Caselli and Stefano Gatti -- Securitization and venture capital fundraising / Paul U. Ali -- Total loss risk in European versus U.S.-based venture capital investments / Dieter G. Kaiser, Rainer Lauterbach, and Denis Schweizer.

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