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Contracts and Exits in Venture Capital FinanceDouglas CummingYork University - Schulich School of Business AFA 2003 Washington, DC Meetings The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 21, Issue 5, pp. 1947-1982, 2008 Abstract: Using a sample of European venture capital investments, I study the relation between venture capital (VC) contracts and exits. The data indicate that ex ante, stronger VC control rights increase the likelihood that an entrepreneurial firm will exit by an acquisition, rather than through a write-off or an IPO. My findings are robust to controls for a variety of factors, including endogeneity and cases in which the VC preplans the exit at the time of time of contract choice. My findings are consistent with control-based theories of financial contracting, such as Aghion and Bolton (1992).
Number of Pages in PDF File: 39 Keywords: Venture Capital, Financial Contracting, Exit, IPO, Acquisition JEL Classification: G24, G28, G31, G32, G35 Accepted Paper SeriesDate posted: March 22, 2002 ; Last revised: October 13, 2008Suggested CitationContact Information
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