The driving forces of venture capital investments

Small Business Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 315-344

  Ning, Yixi ^a   Wang, Wei ^b   Yu, Bo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON VICTORIA   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

2000 High tech bubble; 2008 Financial crisis; Macroeconomic factors; Public market signals; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939891412     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-014-9591-3     Document Type: Article

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