Local bias in venture capital investments

Journal of Empirical Finance

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 362-380

  Cumming, Douglas ^a   Dai, Na ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Massry Center for Business   (United States)

Author keywords

Home bias; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951499759     PISSN: 09275398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jempfin.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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