Tracks
Thursday, July 6th, 2017 / 11:00 - 12:30
Track 1.1: Investors & interest rates
- Implicit interest and financing
Presenter: Meijun Qian, Australian National University
- Do interest rates affect venture capital fundraising, demand and investments?
Presenter: Cristiano Bellavitis, Auckland Business School
- How wise are crowd? A comparative study of crowd and institutions in peer-to-business online lending markets.
Presenter: Ali Mohammadi, University of Gothenburg
Track 1.2: Business angels
- What drives the performance of angel-backed companies? A comparative analysis of alternative angel investment practices
Presenter: Vincenzo Capizzi, Università del Piemonte Orientale
- Business angel investments: success factors and similarity
Presenter: Barbara Stolz, Technische Universität München
Track 1.3: Crowdfunding
- Disentangling crowdfunding from fraudfunding
Presenter: Moein Karami, Concordia University
- Kick-start your business – impression management in crowdfunding pitches
Presenter: Sofie De Prijcker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Is wisdom of the crowd a positive signal? Effects of crowdfinancing on subsequent venture capital selection
Presenter: Michael Mödl, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Track 1.4: Initial Public Offerings
- The effects of stricter regulation on entrepreneurial IPOs
Presenter: Michele Meoli, University of Bergamo
- Investor relations and IPO performance
Presenter: Salim Chahine, American University of Beirut
- Know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em: lessons from Canada’s venture exchange
Presenter: Brian Smith, Wilfrid Laurier University
Thursday, July 6th, 2017 / 14:00 – 15:30
Track 1.5: Debt
- The capital structure of business start-ups across Europe: the effect of a "fresh start" policy
Presenter: Jürgen Hanssens, Ghent University
- Marketplace lending of SMEs
Presenter: Lars Hornuf, University of Trier
- Craft lending: the role of small banks in small business finance
Presenter: Michal Kowalik, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Track 1.6: Contracts & exits
- Understanding the business angel's exit process: an exploratory study
Presenter: Tiago Botelho, University of East Anglia
- Optimal contracts with strategic exit of short-termists investors: a model
Presenter: Guillaume Andrieu, Montpellier Business School
- Negotiating incomplete contracts: the role of relational governance in contractual design
Presenter: Truls Erikson, University of Oslo
Track 1.7: Equity crowdfunding
- Investors’ choice between cash and voting rights: evidence from dual-class equity crowdfunding
Presenter: Silvio Vismara, University of Bergamo
- Equity crowdfunding: first resort or last resort?
Presenter: Xavier Walthoff-Borm, Ghent University
- Dynamics of investor communication in equity crowdfunding
Presenter: Martina Weber, University of Regensburg
Thursday, July 6th, 2017 / 16:00 – 17:00
Track 1.8: Innovation
- Does political corruption impede firm innovation? Evidence from the United States
Presenter: Tao Yuan, City University of Hong Kong
- Firms' innovation strategy under the shadow of analyst coverage
Presenter: Bing Guo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Track 1.9: Funding dynamics
- Entrepreneurial manipulation with staged financing
Presenter: Chris Yung, University of Virginia
- The financing dynamics of newly founded firms
Presenter: Uwe Walz, Goethe University Frankfurt
Track 1.10: Venture capital
- The impact of venture capital monitoring in Europe
Presenter: Silvio Vismara, University of Bergamo
- When can government venture capital funds bridge the equity gap?
Presenter: Anita Quas, Emlyon Business School
Friday, July 7th, 2017 / 09:00 – 10:30
Track 2.1: Family & friends, personal finance
- Are family and friends the wrong investors? Evidence from U.S. start-ups
Presenter: Luana Zaccaria, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
- The effect of personal financing disruptions on entrepreneurship
Presenter: Tobin Hanspal, Goethe University Frankfurt
- Friends and family? How young entrepreneurial firms really fund their assets
Presenter: Tatyana Sokolyk, Brock University
Track 2.2: Buyouts
- The role of bank networks in leveraged buyout financing
Presenter: Anantha Krishna Divakaruni, Vlerick Business School
- LBO performance in emerging countries: a comparative study in Latin America and Asia
Presenter: Aurélie Sannajust, University of Saint-Etienne
- Do buy and build strategies increase illiquidity of private equity investments?
Presenter: Benjamin Hammer, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management
Track 2.3: Venture capital
- Does religiosity influence venture capital investment decisions?
Presenter: Monika Tarsalewska, University of Exeter Business School
- Better safe than sorry
Presenter: Carolin Helmreich, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf
- The effect of venture capitalists straying from their industry comfort zones
Presenter: Tyler Hull, University of Massachusetts Boston
Friday, July 7th, 2017 / 11:00 – 12:30
Track 2.4: Private equity
- Style drifting in private equity: when are drifts implemented and how do they affect investment performance?
Presenter: David Rody, Technische Universität München
- Working for divergent principals: effects of private equity on employment practices in family firms
Presenter: Jeroen Neckebrouck, Vlerick Business School
- Buy and build strategies in private equity: boost or transformation?
Presenter: Benjamin Hammer, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management
Track 2.5: Financial crisis
- The financial crisis and risk assessment: shifts in demand, supply and character
Presenter: Nicolas Legendre, University of Ottawa
- The role of private versus governmental venture capital in fostering job creation during the crisis
Presenter: José Martí Pellon, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- Productivity growth in the financial crisis: evidence from a sample of entrepreneurial firms
Presenter: Gustav Martinsson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Track 2.6: Bank lending
- Discouraged borrowers and the case of informal turndowns
Presenter: Allan Riding, University of Ottawa
- Local banking development and the use of debt financing by start-ups
Presenter: Marc Deloof, University of Antwerp
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