Paul P. Momtaz

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management

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Initial Coin Offerings

PLOS ONE
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 22 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 22 May 2020
Paul P. Momtaz
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
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Initial Coin Offerings, ICOs, Token Sales, Virtual Currencies, Digital Currencies, Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology, Crowdfunding, Entrepreneurial Finance

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Entrepreneurial Finance and Moral Hazard: Evidence from Token Offerings

Journal of Business Venturing, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 04 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2020
Paul P. Momtaz
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
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Token Offering, Token Sale, Initial Coin Offering (ICO), Signaling, Moral Hazard, Crowdfunding, Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies

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The Pricing and Performance of Cryptocurrency

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The Pricing and Performance of Cryptocurrency

The European Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 10 May 2018 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2019
Paul P. Momtaz
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
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Initial Coin Offerings, ICOs, Token Sales, Token Offering, Cryptocurrency, Digital Currency, Virtual Currency, Distributed Ledger Technology, Blockchain, Smart Contracts, Blockchain Finance, Crowdfunding

Putting Numbers on the Coins: The Pricing and Performance of Initial Coin Offerings

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 15 Oct 2020
Paul P. Momtaz
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
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Initial Coin Offerings, ICOs, Token Sales, Token Offering, Cryptocurrency, Digital Currency, Virtual Currency, Distributed Ledger Technology, Blockchain, Smart Contracts, Blockchain Finance, Crowdfunding

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CEO Emotions and Firm Valuation in Initial Coin Offerings: An Artificial Emotional Intelligence Approach

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CEO Emotions and Firm Valuation in Initial Coin Offerings: An Artificial Emotional Intelligence Approach

Strategic Management Journal
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 07 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2020
Paul P. Momtaz
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
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CEO emotions, firm valuation, initial coin offering (ICO), cryptocurrencies, artificial emotional intelligence, emotion AI, affective computing

CEO Emotions and Underpricing in Initial Coin Offerings

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 21 Apr 2020
Paul P. Momtaz
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
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CEO emotions, firm valuation, initial coin offering (ICO), cryptocurrencies, artificial emotional intelligence, emotion AI, affective computing

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Antitakeover Provisions and Firm Value: New Evidence from the M&A Market

Journal of Corporate Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 17 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 26 May 2020
Wolfgang Drobetz and Paul P. Momtaz
University of Hamburg and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
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M&A, takeovers, corporate governance, antitakeover provisions, short-termism, firm value

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Token Sales and Initial Coin Offerings: Introduction

The Journal of Alternative Investments, 22 (4), Spring 2019, 1-6.
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 14 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2019
Paul P. Momtaz
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
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Initial Coin Offerings, ICOs, ICO, Token Sales, Blockchain, Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurial Finance

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Competition Policy and the Profitability of Corporate Acquisitions

Journal of Corporate Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 02 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 13 Sep 2019
Gishan Dissanaike, Wolfgang Drobetz and Paul P. Momtaz
University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, University of Hamburg and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&a), Takeovers, Acquirer Returns, Acquisition Efficiency, Bidder Wealth Effects, Antitrust Law Enforcement, Competition Policy, Merger Control, Law and Finance

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Token Offerings: A Revolution in Corporate Finance?

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 27 Mar 2019
Paul P. Momtaz, Kathrin Rennertseder and Henning Schröder
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management, University of Hamburg and University of Hamburg - Hamburg Business School
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Initial Coin Offerings, Token Offerings, Token Sales, ICOs, Crowdfunding, Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology, Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurial Finance

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Takeover Law Enforcement and Acquirer Returns

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Takeover Law Enforcement and Acquirer Returns

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 30 May 2016 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2020
Gishan Dissanaike, Wolfgang Drobetz, Paul P. Momtaz and Jörg Rocholl
University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, University of Hamburg, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and ESMT European School of Management and Technology
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Mergers and acquisitions, acquirer returns, law and finance, takeover law, law enforcement

The Economics of Law Enforcement: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Corporate Takeover Law

ESMT Berlin Working Paper
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 26 Oct 2020
Gishan Dissanaike, Wolfgang Drobetz, Paul P. Momtaz and Jörg Rocholl
University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, University of Hamburg, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and ESMT European School of Management and Technology
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mergers and acquisitions, acquirer returns, law and finance, takeover law, law enforcement

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Institutional Investors and Post-ICO Performance: An Empirical Analysis of Investor Returns in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)

Journal of Corporate Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 30 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2020
Christian Fisch and Paul P. Momtaz
University of Trier - Faculty of Management and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
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Initial coin offering, ICO, token sale, institutional investors, ICO performance, buy-and-hold abnormal returns, venture capital

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Financing Sustainable Entrepreneurship: ESG Measurement, Valuation, and Performance in Token Offerings

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 12 May 2021 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2021
Sasan Mansouri and Paul P. Momtaz
Goethe University Frankfurt - Department of Finance and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
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Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Sustainability, ESG, Token Offering, Initial Coin Offering (ICO), Entrepreneurial Finance, Crowdfunding, Machine Learning

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Initial Coin Offerings, Asymmetric Information, and Loyal CEOs

Small Business Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 23 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2020
Paul P. Momtaz
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
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Entrepreneurial Finance, Corporate Finance, Initial Coin Offerings, Asymmetric Information, Agency Theory, CEO Loyalty

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The CEO Beauty Premium

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 19 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2020
Massimo G. Colombo, Christian Fisch, Paul P. Momtaz and Silvio Vismara
Politecnico di Milano, University of Trier - Faculty of Management, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of Bergamo
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CEO attractiveness, beauty premium, Upper Echelons Theory (UET), Initial Coin Offering (ICO), firm valuation

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Corporate Governance Convergence in the European M&A Market

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 13 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2018
Wolfgang Drobetz and Paul P. Momtaz
University of Hamburg and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
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Mergers and acquisitions, market for corporate control, cross-border acquisitions, corporate governance, investor protection, shareholder rights, acquirer returns, bidder wealth effects

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Implementing a European Bail-In Regime: Do BRRD & SRM-R Effectively Eliminate Implicit Government Guarantees in the European Banking Sector? An Empirical Analysis

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 12 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2020
Sascha Hahn, Paul P. Momtaz and Axel Wieandt
WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management
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Bail-In, Implicit Government Guarantee, European Banking Regulation, Too-Big-to- Fail, Global Systemically Important Bank (G-SIB), Bank Recovery & Resolution Directive (BRRD), Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM)

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How costly is follow-on financing after premature going-public decisions?

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 15 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2021
Paul P. Momtaz
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
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Entrepreneurial Finance, Corporate Finance, Initial Public Offering (IPO), Going-Public Decision, Private Investment in Public Equity (PIPE), Private Equity, Venture Capital

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Security Tokens

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 15 Jun 2021
Paul P. Momtaz
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
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Security Tokens, Security Token Offering, STO, Decentralized Finance, DeFi

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Valuing start-up firms: A reverse-engineering approach for fair-value multiples from venture capital transactions

Finance Research Letters, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 09 Mar 2021
Johannes A. Barg, Wolfgang Drobetz and Paul P. Momtaz
University of Hamburg, University of Hamburg and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
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Private equity, venture capital, entrepreneurship, investment multiples, start-up valuation

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Debiasing Time-to-Event Models in Entrepreneurship

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Debiasing Time-to-Event Models in Entrepreneurship

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 26 May 2020
Paul P. Momtaz
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
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Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Finance, Time-to-Event Model, Survival Model, Frailty Model

Econometric Models of Duration Data in Entrepreneurship with an Application to Start-Ups’ Time-To-Funding by Venture Capitalists (VCs)

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 26 Oct 2020
Paul P. Momtaz
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
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Entrepreneurship, Time-to-Event Model, Survival Model, Frailty Model, Entrepreneurial Finance

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The Economics of Crypto Funds

Posted: 15 Jun 2021
Paul P. Momtaz
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management

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Cryptocurrency, Token Offerings, ICOs, STOs, Blockchain, Entrepreneurial Finance, Hedge Funds, Venture Capital, Decenrtalized Finance, DeFi

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Investor Sentiment and Initial Coin Offerings

The Journal of Alternative Investments, 22 (4), Spring 2019, https://jai.pm-research.com/content/21/4/41
Posted: 31 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2019
Wolfgang Drobetz, Paul P. Momtaz and Henning Schröder
University of Hamburg, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of Hamburg - Hamburg Business School

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Initial coin offerings, ICOs, investor sentiment, market sentiment, market timing, window of opportunity