Michael Ewens

Columbia Business School

David L. and Elsie M. Dodd Professor of Finance

665 W. 130th Street

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1.

The Price of Diversifiable Risk in Venture Capital and Private Equity

AFA 2003 Washington, DC Meetings
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 30 Nov 2002 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2013
Michael Ewens, Charles M. Jones and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Columbia Business School, Columbia University and Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
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Venture Capital, Idiosyncratic Risk, Principal-agent problem, Private Equity

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The Deregulation of the Private Equity Markets and the Decline in IPOs

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The Deregulation of the Private Equity Markets and the Decline in IPOs

Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 94 Posted: 15 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2020
Michael Ewens and Joan Farre-Mensa
Columbia Business School and University of Illinois at Chicago - Department of Finance
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Deregulation, NSMIA, Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), Venture Capital, Private Equity, Founder Equity

The Deregulation of the Private Equity Markets and the Decline in Ipos

NBER Working Paper No. w26317
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 30 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 30 May 2021
Michael Ewens and Joan Farre-Mensa
Columbia Business School and University of Illinois at Chicago - Department of Finance
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Measuring Intangible Capital with Market Prices

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Measuring Intangible Capital with Market Prices

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 27 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2021
Michael Ewens, Ryan H. Peters and Sean Wang
Columbia Business School, Tulane University - Finance & Economics and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Accounting Department
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Intangible capital, organization capital, depreciation, knowledge capital, R&D, acquisitions

Measuring Intangible Capital with Market Prices

NBER Working Paper No. w25960
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 20 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2022
Michael Ewens, Ryan H. Peters and Sean Wang
Columbia Business School, Tulane University - Finance & Economics and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Accounting Department
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Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital

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Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital

Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 15-070, The Journal of Financial Economics (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 03 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2017
Michael Ewens, Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Columbia Business School, Imperial College Business School and Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
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Innovation, Venture Capital, Investing, Abandonment Options

Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital

NBER Working Paper No. w24523
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 23 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2022
Michael Ewens, Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Columbia Business School, Imperial College Business School and Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
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Are Early Stage Investors Biased Against Women?

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 17 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2018
Michael Ewens and Richard Townsend
Columbia Business School and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management
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gender, entrepreneurship, angel investing, venture capital, Gender Gap, Bias

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Founder Replacement and Startup Performance

Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 31, No. 4, 2018
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 19 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2018
Michael Ewens and Matt Marx
Columbia Business School and Boston University - Questrom School of Business
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Executive turnover, venture capital, financial intermediation, entrepreneurship

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Insider Financing and Venture Capital Returns

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 16-45
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 09 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2016
Michael Ewens, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Ilya A. Strebulaev
Columbia Business School, Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
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venture capital, financial intermediation, hold up, entrepreneurship

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Venture Capital Contracts

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Venture Capital Contracts

USC Marshall School of Business Research Paper Sponsored by iORB, No. Forthcoming
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 22 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 19 Feb 2021
Michael Ewens, Alexander S. Gorbenko and Arthur G. Korteweg
Columbia Business School, University College London - Department of Economics and School of Management and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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venture capital, contracts, entrepreneurship, matching, structural

Venture Capital Contracts

NBER Working Paper No. w26115
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 02 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 11 May 2022
Michael Ewens, Alexander S. Gorbenko and Arthur G. Korteweg
Columbia Business School, University College London - Department of Economics and School of Management and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Regulatory Costs of Being Public: Evidence from Bunching Estimation

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Regulatory Costs of Being Public: Evidence from Bunching Estimation

Number of pages: 81 Posted: 11 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2022
Michael Ewens, Kairong Xiao and Ting Xu
Columbia Business School, Columbia University - Columbia Business School and University of Virginia - Darden School of Business
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costs of being public, bunching estimator, capital market regulation, disclosure, governance

Regulatory Costs of Being Public: Evidence from Bunching Estimation

NBER Working Paper No. w29143
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 16 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2022
Michael Ewens, Kairong Xiao and Ting Xu
Columbia Business School, Columbia University - Columbia Business School and University of Virginia - Darden School of Business
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Board Dynamics Over the Startup Life Cycle

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Board Dynamics Over the Startup Life Cycle

European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 687/2020
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 13 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2022
Michael Ewens and Nadya Malenko
Columbia Business School and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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venture capital, board of directors, corporate governance, independent directors, mediation

Board Dynamics Over the Startup Life Cycle

NBER Working Paper No. w27769
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 14 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 18 May 2022
Michael Ewens and Nadya Malenko
Columbia Business School and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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Board Dynamics Over the Startup Life Cycle

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15024
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 28 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2022
Michael Ewens and Nadya Malenko
Columbia Business School and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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Allocation of control, Board Of Directors, corporate governance, Independent Directors, Mediation role, venture capital

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Local Journalism under Private Equity Ownership

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Local Journalism under Private Equity Ownership

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 11 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2022
Michael Ewens, Arpit Gupta and Sabrina T Howell
Columbia Business School, NYU Stern School of Business and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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Private equity, newspapers, media, local journalism, civic engagement

Local Journalism Under Private Equity Ownership

NBER Working Paper No. w29743
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 14 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 09 Apr 2022
Michael Ewens, Arpit Gupta and Sabrina T. Howell
Columbia Business School, NYU Stern School of Business and New York University (NYU) - New York University
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The Evolution of CEO Compensation in Venture Capital Backed Startups

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The Evolution of CEO Compensation in Venture Capital Backed Startups

Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 20-119
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 22 May 2020 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2020
Michael Ewens, Ramana Nanda and Christopher Stanton
Columbia Business School, Imperial College Business School and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
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Entrepreneurship, venture capital, executive compensation

The Evolution of CEO Compensation in Venture Capital Backed Startups

NBER Working Paper No. w27296
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 09 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2022
Michael Ewens, Ramana Nanda and Christopher Stanton
Columbia Business School, Imperial College Business School and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
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Private or Public Equity? The Evolving Entrepreneurial Finance Landscape

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Private or Public Equity? The Evolving Entrepreneurial Finance Landscape

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Forthcoming.
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 10 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2022
Michael Ewens and Joan Farre-Mensa
Columbia Business School and University of Illinois at Chicago - Department of Finance
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Entrepreneurial finance, private equity, private firm, IPOs, venture capital, financial intermediation.

Private or Public Equity? The Evolving Entrepreneurial Finance Landscape

NBER Working Paper No. w29532
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 06 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2022
Michael Ewens and Joan Farre-Mensa
Columbia Business School and University of Illinois at Chicago - Department of Finance
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Is a VC Partnership Greater than the Sum of Its Partners?

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Is a VC Partnership Greater than the Sum of Its Partners?

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 20 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2014
Michael Ewens and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Columbia Business School and Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
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Venture Capital, Performance Persistence, Theory of the Firm

Is a VC Partnership Greater than the Sum of its Partners?

NBER Working Paper No. w19120
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 18 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2022
Michael Ewens and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Columbia Business School and Harvard Business School - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
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Statistical Discrimination or Prejudice? A Large Sample Field Experiment

Review of Economics and Statistics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 23 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2013
Michael Ewens, Bryan Tomlin and Liang Choon Wang
Columbia Business School, Loyola University of Chicago - School of Business Administration - Department of Economics and Monash University - Department of Economics
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discrimination, field experiment, statistical discrimination, housing markets

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Managing Performance Signals Through Delay: Evidence from Venture Capital

Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 11 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2018
Indraneel Chakraborty and Michael Ewens
University of Miami and Columbia Business School
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venture capital, reputation, financial intermediation, entrepreneurship

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Venture Capitalists' Access to Finance and Its Impact on Startups

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 12 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 13 Sep 2021
Jun Chen and Michael Ewens
Renmin University of China - School of Business and Columbia Business School
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Venture capital, banking, limited partners, entrepreneurship, agglomeration, regulation

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The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Firm Founding on Innovation

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 10 Jul 2013
Michael Ewens and Christian Fons-Rosen
Columbia Business School and University of California, Merced
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entrepreneurship, innovation, spinoffs, venture capital

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Venture Capitalists’ Access to Finance and its Impact on Startups

NBER Working Paper No. w29211
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 06 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2022
Jun Chen and Michael Ewens
Renmin University of China - School of Business and Columbia Business School
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