The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurial Finance Oxford Handbooks Series

The topic of Entrepreneurial Finance involves many issues, including but not limited to the risks and returns to being an entrepreneur, financial contracting, business planning, capital gaps and the availability of capital, market booms and busts, public policy and international differences in entrepreneurial finance stemming from differences in laws, institutions and culture. As these issues are so extremely broad and complex, the academic and practitioner literature on topic usually focuses on at most one or two of these issues at one time. The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurial Finance provides a comprehensive picture of issues dealing with different sources of entrepreneurial finance and different issues with financing entrepreneurs. The Handbook comprises contributions from 48 authors based in 12 different countries. The Handbook is organized into seven parts, the first of which introduces the issues, explains the organization of the handbook, and briefly summarizes the contributions made by the authors in each of the chapters. Part II covers the topics pertaining to financing new industries and the returns and risk to being an entrepreneur. Part III deals with entrepreneurial capital structure. Part IV discusses business planning, funding and funding gaps in entrepreneurial finance with a focus on credit markets. Part V provides analyses of the main alternative sources of entrepreneurial finance. Part VI considers issues in public policy towards entrepreneurial finance. Part VII considers international differences in entrepreneurial finance, including analyses of entrepreneurial finance in weak institutional environments as well as microfinance.

Part I. Introduction. Chapter 1. alt,"Introduction to the Handbook of Entrepreneurial Financeagt,". Douglas Cumming, York University Schulich School of Business. Part II. Financing New Industries and the Returns and Risk to Entrepreneurship. Chapter 2. alt,"Finance of New Industriesagt,". Brent Goldfarb, University of Maryland, David Kirsch, University of Maryland, and April Shen, University of Maryland. Chapter 3. alt,"The Returns to Entrepreneurshipagt,". Thomas Astebro, HEC-Paris. Chapter 4. alt,"Risk Attitudes and Private Business Equityagt,". Frank Fossen, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). Chapter 5. alt,"New Firm Financing and Performanceagt,". Sheryl Winston Smith, Temple University. Part III. Entrepreneurial Capital Structure. Chapter 6. alt,"New Perspectives on Entrepreneurial Capital Structureagt,". David Robinson, Duke University Fuqua School of Business. Chapter 7. alt,"The Capital Structure of Family Firmsagt,". Markus Ampenberger, Technische Universitat Munchen, Morten Bennedsen, INSEAD, and Haoyong Zhou, Copenhagen Business School. Chapter 8. alt,"Influence of Internal Factors on the Use of Equity- and Mezzanine-Based Financing in Family Firmsagt,". Ann-Kristin Achleitner, Technische Universitat Munchen, Eva Lutz, Technische Universitat Munchen, and Stephanie Schraml, Technische Universitat Munchen. Part IV. Funding: Planning, Credit Markets and Gaps. Chapter 9. alt,"Planning for Entrepreneurial Finance and Capital: A Critical Review of the Importance of Teaching Business Planningagt,". Benson Honig, McMaster University. Chapter 10. alt,"Funding Gapsagt,". Robert Cressy, University of Birmingham. Chapter 11. alt,"Availability of Credit to Small Firms Young and Old: Evidence from the Surveys of Small Business Financesagt,". Rebel Cole, DePaul University. Chapter 12. alt,"Asymmetric Information, Credit Market Condition and Entrepreneurial Financeagt,". Liang Han, University of Hull Business School, and Song Zhang, University of Hull Business School. Part V. Alternative Types of Entrepreneurial Finance. Chapter 13. alt,"Crowdfunding of Entrepreneurial Venturesagt,". Armin Schwienbacher, SKEMA Business School, Universite de Lille, and Benjamin Larralde, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Business Academy. Chapter 14. alt,"Angel Investors and their Investmentsagt,". Ramon P. DeGennaro, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Chapter 15. alt,"Firm Growth, Schumpeterian Entrepreneurship and Venture Capitalagt,". Michael Peneder, University of Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austrian Institute of Economic Research. Chapter 16. alt,"Why Do Firms Go Public?agt,". James Brau, Brigham Young University. Chapter 17. alt,"Valuation of IPOsagt,". Rajesh Aggarwal, University of Minnesota, Sanjai Bhagat, University of Colorado, Boulder, Srinivasan Rangan, University of Colorado, Boulder. Chapter 18. alt,"What is Trade Credit and Why Does it Exist?agt,". Vicente Cunat, London School of Economics and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and Emilia Garcia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Chapter 19. alt,"Factoring and Invoice Financingagt,". Khaled Soufani, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University. Chapter 20. alt,"Project Financeagt,". Stefano Gatti, Bocconi