The Determinants of Venture Capital Funding: Evidence Across Countries

By Leslie A. Jeng, P. C. Wells. 2000

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Governance, ownership structure, and performance of IPO firms: The impact of different types of private equity investors and institutional environments (2009, background): “For example, founders-managers hold significant equity stakes in the IPO firm, and there is the potential for public market investors to be open to abuses by founders (Jeng and Wells, 2000).”
Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship (2009, background): “Studies of entrepreneurial finance, however, show that stricter regulations reduce VC investment and high-growth entrepreneurship (Jeng and Wells 2000, Da Rin et al. 2006, Bozkaya and Kerr 2007).”
Venture capital in China: Past, present, and future (2007, background): “…capitalists typically operate in highly formal institutional environments such as those present in predominantly North American economies (i.e. Jeng & Wells, 2000), though research on venture capital in China suggests that venture capitalist have had to learn to work in informal environments…”
Determinants of Venture Capital Performance: Europe and the United States (2006, background): “Jeng and Wells (2000) is an early study based on aggregate data; Bottazzi and DaRin (2002) present an up-to-date overview of aggregate investment flows and the impact of VC financing on IPO firms.”
The patterns of venture capital investment in Europe (2015, background): “In addition to regulation, VC is extremely sensitive to the development of capital markets (Black and Gilson 1998; Jeng and Wells 2000).”
Private equity returns and disclosure around the world (2010, neutral): “The scope of our data is similar to Black and Gilson (1998) and Jeng and Wells (2000), but those datasets are based on aggregate industry figures and comprise no”
Sources of Funds and Investment Activities of Venture Capital Funds: Evidence from Germany, Israel, Japan and the UK (2002, neutral): “13 Jeng and Wells (2000) report that investment in early stages relative to GDP has been slightly higher in Germany than in the UK in recent years, although in the past the UK has invested relatively more in companies in their early stages.”
Institutions and the internationalization of US venture capital firms (2010, neutral): “Some of the factors found to affect the growth of venture capital activity include appropriate structures and government policies to protect investor returns (Becker & Hellmann, 2005 Q4; Jeng & Wells, 2000), the level of economic development, the availability of exit options (Black & Gilson, 1998; K”
Entrepreneurs for a low carbon world: How environmental knowledge and policy shape the creation and financing of green start-ups (2020, neutral): “The recent literature on venture capital investing suggests that formal institutions are an important determinant of the variation of VC financing across countries and regions, but moderated by the cultural setting (Jeng and Wells, 2000; Li and Zahra, 2012).”