Information asymmetries, agency costs and venture capital exit outcomes

Venture Capital

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 197-231

  Cumming, Douglas ^a   Johan, Sofia ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acquisitions; Buybacks; Exits; Financial contracts; IPOs; Secondary sales; Venture capital; Write offs

Indexed keywords

EID: 47249151802     PISSN: 13691066     EISSN: 14645343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691060802151788     Document Type: Article

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