Venture capital investment cycles: The impact of public markets

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-23

  Gompers, Paul ^a,b   Kovner, Anna ^a   Lerner, Josh ^a,b   Scharfstein, David ^a,b  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Initial public offering; Market cycles; Private equity

Indexed keywords

EID: 36949001141     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2006.12.002     Document Type: Article

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