Venture capital investors, valuation and information: A comparative study of the US, Hong Kong, India and Singapore

Venture Capital

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 237-252

  Lockett, Andy ^a   Wright, Mike ^a   Sapienza, Harry ^b   Pruthi, Sarika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emerging markets; Information; Valuation; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 8744316498     PISSN: 13691066     EISSN: 14645343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691060213715     Document Type: Article

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