Foreign Investors and Domestic Company Growth: Evidence from US Venture Capital Investments in Sweden

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Thomas F. Hellmann

University of Oxford - Said Business School; University of Oxford - Said Business School; European Corporate Governance Initiative

Alexander Montag

Indiana University; Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)

Joacim Tåg

Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN); Hanken School of Economics

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Date Written: April 2019

Abstract

Do foreign venture capitalists help the domestic economy, or hamper it by slowing down growth, potentially moving economic activity away? This paper addresses this long-standing policy question by examining the differential effects of US venture capital investments on the growth of Swedish start-up companies. It finds that US venture capital results in more employment, not less. These findings continue to hold after controlling for endogenous selection effects. US investments are also accompanied by increases in local employment and start-up rates. The paper also examines effect on wages, sales, earnings, foreign subsidiaries, subsequent funding rounds, and exits. Overall there is no evidence that US venture capital investments hamper the domestic growth of Swedish companies.

Keywords: Domestic, Employment, Foreign, International, Venture Capital

JEL Classification: G24, J21, F16, F30, F65, F66

Suggested Citation

Hellmann, Thomas F. and Montag, Alexander and Tåg, Joacim, Foreign Investors and Domestic Company Growth: Evidence from US Venture Capital Investments in Sweden (April 2019). IFN Working Paper No. 1272 (2019), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3372976 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3372976

Thomas F. Hellmann

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