The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance: Evidence from Angel Financings


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Output typeJournal article

Author listKerr WR, Lerner J, Schoar A

PublisherOxford University Press

Publication year2014

JournalThe Review of Financial Studies (0893-9454)

Volume number27

Issue number1

Start page20

End page55

Number of pages36

ISSN0893-9454

eISSN1465-7368

LanguagesEnglish-Great Britain (EN-GB)


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Open access statusgreen

Full text URLhttps://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/1721.1/88093/1/Schoar_The%20consequences.pdf


Abstract

This article documents the fact that ventures funded by two successful angel groups experience superior outcomes to rejected ventures: They have improved survival, exits, employment, patenting, Web traffic, and financing. We use strong discontinuities in angel- funding behavior over small changes in their collective interest levels to implement a regression discontinuity approach. We confirm the positive effects for venture operations, with qualitative support for a higher likelihood of successful exits. On the other hand, there is no difference in access to additional financing around the discontinuity. This might suggest that financing is not a central input of angel groups.


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