Carsten Bienz

NHH Norwegian School of Economics

Associate Professor

Helleveien 30

Bergen

Norway

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A Pecking Order of Venture Capital Exits

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 17 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2008
Carsten Bienz and Tore E. Leite
NHH Norwegian School of Economics and Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
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venture capital, IPO, trade sale, corporate governance, moral hazard, disinvestment, exit strategy

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The Dynamics of Venture Capital Contracts

CFS Working Paper No. 2006/11
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 28 Feb 2005
Carsten Bienz and Julia Hirsch
NHH Norwegian School of Economics and Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro
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Venture capital, staging, corporate governance, moral hazard, renegotiation, contract theory

The Dynamics of Venture Capital Contracts

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 05 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2019
Carsten Bienz and Julia Hirsch
NHH Norwegian School of Economics and Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro
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Venture capital, hold-up, renegotiation, staging, milestones

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Venture Capital Exit Rights

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 05 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2010
Carsten Bienz and Uwe Walz
NHH Norwegian School of Economics and Goethe University Frankfurt - Institute of Economics
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venture capital, corporate governance, empirical contract theory, hold-up, exit rights, trade-sale rights

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Evolution of Decision and Control Rights in Venture Capital Contracts: An Empirical Analysis

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 01 Mar 2007
Carsten Bienz and Uwe Walz
NHH Norwegian School of Economics and Goethe University Frankfurt - Institute of Economics
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venture capital, corporate governance, empirical contract theory, control rights, exit rights

Fund Ownership, Wealth, and Risk Taking: Evidence on Private Equity Managers

SAFE Working Paper No. 126
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 02 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2021
Carsten Bienz, Karin S. Thorburn and Uwe Walz
NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Goethe University Frankfurt - Institute of Economics
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Private equity, incentives, fund manager, ownership, risk taking, wealth

Fund Ownership, Wealth, and Risk-Taking: Evidence on Private-Equity Managers

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 May 2022
Carsten Bienz, Karin S. Thorburn and Uwe Walz
NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Goethe University Frankfurt - Institute of Economics
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Private equity, incentives, fund manager, ownership, risk-taking, wealth

Ownership, Wealth, and Risk Taking: Evidence on Private Equity Fund Managers

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13944
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 07 Oct 2019
Carsten Bienz, Karin S. Thorburn and Uwe Walz
NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Goethe University Frankfurt - Institute of Economics
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buyouts, general partner, incentives, ownership, private equity, Risk Taking, Wealth

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The Defeasance of Control Rights

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 09 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2010
NHH Norwegian School of Economics, London School of Economics and Michigan State University - Department of Finance
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Bonds, Covenants, Defeasance, Renegotiation

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Software Vulnerabilities and Bug Bounty Programs

NHH Dept. of Business and Management Science Discussion Paper No. 2020/4
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 14 May 2020
Carsten Bienz and Steffen Juranek
NHH Norwegian School of Economics and NHH Norwegian School of Economics - Department of Business and Management Science
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Bug bounty program, software security, information technology security, software vulnerability

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Strategic Valuation Management in Private Equity Fundraising

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 10 May 2017
NHH Norwegian School of Economics, PwC Norway and Ernst & Young Norway
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Private Equity, Valuation Management, Fundraising

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The covenant removal option in corporate bonds * †

FEB-RN Research Paper No. 14/2024
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 07 Aug 2024
Carsten Bienz, Zsuzsanna Fluck and Karin S. Thorburn
NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Michigan State University and Norwegian School of Economics
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Financial contract design, corporate bonds, action-limiting covenants, covenant defeasance, callability, bond yields JEL Classification: G32, D86, G12