Presidential Address: The Corporation in Finance

By R. Rajan. 2012

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Attracting Early Stage Investors: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment (2015, unknown): “…core of the firm, whereas the contrasting view puts the human assets of the firm at its core (e.g., Wernerfelt 1984; Rajan and Zingales 1998, 2001; Rajan 2012).4 Our results present evidence of the importance of human capital assets at the earliest 3 Closed financing rounds are reported back to…”
Risk Tolerance and Entrepreneurship (2013, background): “While corporate finance theory takes the existence of firms as given, financial economists are increasingly interested in where firms come from, and which factors affect the inception and growth of new firms (e.g., Rajan, 2012).”
Financial Dependence and Innovation: The Case of Public Versus Private Firms (2017, unknown): “Moreover, Rajan (2012) points out that the possibility of losing the critical asset to creditors in the event of project failure discourages entrepreneurs to 11 innovate.”