SSRN Chicago Booth: Michael P. Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship Research Paper Series

1.

How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 16-33, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 477/2016

Number of pages: 95 Posted: 29 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 10 May 2017

Working Paper Series

Paul A. Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan and Ilya A. Strebulaev

Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 9,693

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Private Equity Performance: Returns, Persistence and Capital Flows

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4446-03; AFA 2004 San Diego Meetings

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 04 Dec 2003

Working Paper Series

Steven N. Kaplan and Antoinette Schoar

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

Downloads 9,335

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Private Equity Performance: What Do We Know?

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, Fama-Miller Working Paper, Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 11-44, Darden Business School Working Paper No. 1932316

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 23 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Robert S. Harris, Tim Jenkinson and Steven N. Kaplan

University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 9,025

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The State of U.S. Corporate Governance: What's Right and What's Wrong?

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 23/2003

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 08 Sep 2003

Working Paper Series

Bengt R. Holmström and Steven N. Kaplan

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 8,167

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Corporate Governance

The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, 1998

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 10 Jun 1998

Accepted Paper Series

Luigi Zingales

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 6,659

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The Cost of Diversity: The Diversification Discount and Inefficient Investment

CRSP Working Paper No. 463

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 05 Feb 1998

Working Paper Series

Raghuram G. Rajan, Henri Servaes and Luigi Zingales

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, London Business School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 6,411

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The Costs and Benefits of Financial Market Regulation

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 21/2004

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 29 Apr 2004

Working Paper Series

Luigi Zingales

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

Downloads 5,576

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Why are Buyouts Levered? The Financial Structure of Private Equity Funds

Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2008-15; Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2008-03-014, Journal of Finance, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 83 Posted: 12 Mar 2005 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Ulf Axelson, Per Strömberg and Michael S. Weisbach

London School of Economics, Swedish House of Finance and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance

Downloads 5,205

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Corporate Governance and Merger Activity in the U.S.: Making Sense of the 1980s and 1990s

MIT Dept. of Economics Working Paper No. 01-11

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 21 Feb 2001

Working Paper Series

Bengt R. Holmström and Steven N. Kaplan

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,456

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Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter?

Swedish Institute for Financial Research Conference on the Economics of the Private Equity Market, AFA 2008 New Orleans Meetings Paper

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 20 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2015

Working Paper Series

Steven N. Kaplan, Mark M. Klebanov and Morten Sorensen

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Chicago - Graduate School of Business (GSB) and Copenhagen Business School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,142

11.

Power in a Theory of the Firm

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 31 Mar 1997

Working Paper Series

Luigi Zingales and Raghuram G. Rajan

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,859

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Financial Contracting Theory Meets the Real World: An Empirical Analysis of Venture Capital Contracts

CRSP Working Paper No. 513

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 26 Apr 2000

Working Paper Series

Steven N. Kaplan and Per Strömberg

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Swedish House of Finance

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,760

13.

How Do Private Equity Investments Perform Compared to Public Equity?

Darden Business School Working Paper No. 2597259

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 23 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2015

Working Paper Series

Robert S. Harris, Tim Jenkinson and Steven N. Kaplan

University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

Downloads 3,395

14.

Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?

AFA 2007 Chicago Meetings Paper, Chicago GSB Research Paper No. 08-22, CRSP Working Paper No. 618, 1st Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Forthcoming, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 156/2007

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 15 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2011

Working Paper Series

I. J. Alexander Dyck, Adair Morse and Luigi Zingales

University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,188

15.

What Determines Firm Size?

CRSP Working Paper No. 496; and USC Finance & Business Econ. Working Paper No. 01-1

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 03 Sep 1999

Working Paper Series

Raghuram G. Rajan, Luigi Zingales and Krishna B. Kumar

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Southern California

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,131

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Wall Street and Main Street: What Contributes to the Rise in the Highest Incomes?

CRSP Working Paper No. 615, AFA 2008 New Orleans Meetings Paper

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 20 Sep 2006

Working Paper Series

Joshua D. Rauh and Steven N. Kaplan

Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,052

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Has Persistence Persisted in Private Equity? Evidence from Buyout and Venture Capital Funds

Darden Business School Working Paper No. 2304808, Fama-Miller Working Paper

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 02 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2014

Working Paper Series

Robert S. Harris, Tim Jenkinson, Steven N. Kaplan and Rüdiger Stucke

University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, University of Oxford - Said Business School, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Oxford - Said Business School

Downloads 2,918

18.

Private Benefits of Control: An International Comparison

CRSP Working Paper No. 535; and Harvard PON Working Paper; AFA 2003 Washington, DC Meetings

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 07 Jan 2002

Working Paper Series

I. J. Alexander Dyck and Luigi Zingales

University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,760

19.

Judging Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

CRSP Working Paper No. 545; EFA 2003 Annual Conference Paper No. 884, HBS Finance Working Paper No. 04-023

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 17 Dec 2002

Working Paper Series

Randolph B. Cohen, Joshua D. Coval and Lubos Pastor

Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,124

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Banks and Markets: The Changing Character of European Finance

CRSP Working Paper No. 546

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 23 Apr 2003

Working Paper Series

Raghuram G. Rajan and Luigi Zingales

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,061

21.

A Clinical Exploration of Value Creation and Destruction in Acquisitions: Organization Design, Incentives, and Internal Capital Markets

Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) Working Paper No. 450

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 11 Aug 1997

Working Paper Series

Steven N. Kaplan, Mark L. Mitchell and Karen H. Wruck

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, AQR Capital Management, LLC and Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business, Department of Finance

Downloads 1,985

22.

Theft and Taxes

ECGI - Finance Research Paper No. 63/2005, EFA 2005 Moscow Meetings, Forthcoming, CRSP Working Paper No. 600

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 06 Dec 2005

Working Paper Series

Mihir A. Desai, I. J. Alexander Dyck and Luigi Zingales

Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,898

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Should Investors Bet on the Jockey or the Horse? Evidence from the Evolution of Firms from Early Business Plans to Public Companies

CRSP Working Paper No. 603

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 16 Feb 2005

Working Paper Series

Steven N. Kaplan, Berk A. Sensoy and Per Strömberg

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Vanderbilt University - Finance and Swedish House of Finance

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,873

24.

The Corporate Governance Role of the Media

CRSP Working Paper No. 543

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 01 Nov 2002

Working Paper Series

I. J. Alexander Dyck and Luigi Zingales

University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,867

25.

Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes?

CRSP Working Paper No. 608

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 24 Jan 2006

Working Paper Series

Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales

Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF), Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management - Department of Finance and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,827

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The Firm as a Dedicated Hierarchy: A Theory of the Origin and Growth of Firms

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 16 Nov 1998

Working Paper Series

Raghuram G. Rajan and Luigi Zingales

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,763

27.

In Search of New Foundations

CRSP Working Paper No. 515

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 19 Jul 2000

Working Paper Series

Luigi Zingales

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,691

28.

Improving the Role of Equity Crowdfunding in Europe's Capital Markets

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 02 Nov 2014

Working Paper Series

Karen E. Wilson and Marco Testoni

Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) and Bruegel

Downloads 1,657

29.

Trusting the Stock Market

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 170/2007, CFS Working Paper No. 2005/27, CRSP Working Paper No. 602

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 03 Oct 2005

Working Paper Series

Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales

Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF), Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management - Department of Finance and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 4 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,303

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Is the U.S. Capital Market Losing its Competitive Edge?

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 192/2007

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 12 Nov 2007

Working Paper Series

Luigi Zingales

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

Downloads 1,265

31.

How Costly is Financial (Not Economic) Distress? Evidence from Highly Leveraged Transactions that Became Distressed

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 21 Apr 1997

Working Paper Series

Steven N. Kaplan and Gregor Andrade

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Harvard Business School - Finance Unit

Downloads 1,259

32.

Effects of Lbos on Tax Revenues of the U.S. Treasury

Tax Notes, Vol. 42, No. 6, 1989

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 16 Aug 2000

Accepted Paper Series

Michael C. Jensen, Steven N. Kaplan and Laura Stiglin

Harvard Business School, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Econalytics

Downloads 1,245

33.

Characteristics, Contracts and Actions: Evidence from Venture Capitalist Analyses

CRSP Working Paper No. 536

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 15 Jan 2002

Working Paper Series

Steven N. Kaplan and Per Strömberg

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Swedish House of Finance

There are 4 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,209

34.

The Role of Social Capital in Financial Development

Eleventh Annual Utah Winter Conference; AFA 2001 New Orleans; CRSP Working Paper No. 511

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 21 Mar 2000

Working Paper Series

Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales

Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF), Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management - Department of Finance and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,180

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The Influence of the Financial Revolution on the Nature of Firms

CRSP Working Paper No. 525

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 12 Feb 2001

Working Paper Series

Raghuram G. Rajan and Luigi Zingales

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,102

36.

How Smart is Smart Money? A Two-Sided Matching Model of Venture Capital

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 31 Jan 2006

Working Paper Series

Morten Sorensen

Copenhagen Business School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,090

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What is the Price of Hubris? Using Takeover Battles to Infer Overpayments and Synergies

AFA 2001 New Orleans Meetings

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 16 Sep 2000

Working Paper Series

Pekka Hietala, Steven N. Kaplan and David T. Robinson

INSEAD - Finance, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,068

38.

Why Do Entrepreneurs Hold Large Ownership Shares? Testing Agency Theory Using Entrepreneur Effort and Wealth

CRSP Working Paper No. 544

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 17 Dec 2002

Working Paper Series

Marianne P. Bitler, Annette Vissing-Jorgensen and Tobias J. Moskowitz

University of California, Davis - Departments of Economics and Agricultural Resource Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Yale University, Yale SOM

Downloads 1,001

39.

People's Opium? Religion and Economic Attitudes

CRSP Working Paper No. 542

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 19 Nov 2002

Working Paper Series

Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales

Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF), Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management - Department of Finance and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 991

40.

Law and Blockchain: A Legal Perspective on Current Regulatory Trends Worldwide

Revue Trimestrielle de Droit Financier (Corporate Finance and Capital Markets Law Review) RTDF N°4-2017 - December 2017,

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 11 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2018

Accepted Paper Series

Stéphane Blemus

Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne - Sorbonne Law School

Downloads 985

41.

Coordinating Supply and Demand on an On-Demand Service Platform with Impatient Customers

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 30 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2017

Working Paper Series

Jiaru Bai, Kut C. So, Christopher S. Tang, Xiqun Chen and Hai Wang

SUNY at Binghamton - School of Management, University of California, Irvine - Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Decisions, Operations, and Technology Management (DOTM) Area, Zhejiang University and Singapore Management University

Downloads 935

42.

Does Local Financial Development Matter?

CRSP Working Paper No. 538

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 May 2003

Working Paper Series

Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales

Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF), Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management - Department of Finance and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 845

43.

Berg Electronics Corporation

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 30 Jan 2001

Case and Teaching Paper Series

Steven N. Kaplan, John D. Martin and Robert Parrino

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Baylor University - Department of Finance, Insurance & Real Estate and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance

Downloads 825

44.

How Well Do Venture Capital Databases Reflect Actual Investments?

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 22 Oct 2006

Working Paper Series

Steven N. Kaplan, Per Strömberg and Berk A. Sensoy

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Swedish House of Finance and Vanderbilt University - Finance

Downloads 781

45.

Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge?

CRSP Working Paper No. 609, Ross School of Business Paper No. 1046

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 10 May 2006

Working Paper Series

E. Han Kim, Adair Morse and Luigi Zingales

University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 755

46.

‘The Valley of Opportunity’ Rethinking Venture Capital for Long-Term Institutional Investors

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 07 Feb 2014

Working Paper Series

Jagdeep Bachher, Gordon L. Clark, Ashby H. B. Monk and Kiran Sridhar

University of California Office of Chief Investment Officer, Oxford University - Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Stanford University - Global Projects Center and Stanford University

Downloads 725

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