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Venture Capital in Europe Quantitative Finance Series

Langue : Anglais

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Couverture de l’ouvrage Venture Capital in Europe
Until recently, only the United States had an active venture capital market. This is changing rapidly, as many other countries have experienced rapid growth in venture capital financing over the past five years. This book contains new scientific articles showcasing the latest research on venture capital in Europe. Venture capital investment remains a hot topic with portfolio managers, individual investors, academics worldwide. This book examines in detail all the major issues regarding venture capital investment: contracting, financing, regulation, valuation, etc. and identifies new trends in the venture capital arena. Features a foreword by Josh Lerner.
Venture capital in Europe: closing the gap to the U.S. Public venture capital across Europe: a 15-year perspective Why are venture capital markets well developed in some countries but comparatively small in others: evidence from Europe A survey of the venture capital industry in Central and Eastern Europe Venture capital in European transition economies Recommendations for the development of a European Venture Capital regulatory corpus: lessons from the USA Productivity growth in Spanish venture-backed firms Is the Spanish public-sector effective in backing venture capital A review of the venture capital industry in Italy Exit strategy and the intensity of exit-directed activities among venture capital backed entrepreneurs in Sweden Private equity fund managers over-value their company investments A search model of Venture Capital, entrepreneurship, and unemployment Capital structure in new technology-based firms: venture capital-backed versus non-venture capital-backed firms in the Irish software sector German business ventures –enterpreneurs, financing and success factors Financing practices in the German Venture Capital industry: an empirical study Covenants in Venture Capital contracts: theory and empirical evidence from the German capital market Supply and demand of venture capital for biotech firms: the case of the Belgian regions of Wallonia and Brussels Efficiency of VC firms using data envelopment analysis Agency theory and management buy-out: the role of venture capitalists Does the value of Venture Capital vary over the investee life cycle? evidence from Irish investees German banks as venture capitalists Long-run venture-backed IPO performance analysis of italian family-owned firms: what role do closed-end funds play? Securitisation and venture capital fund-raising Total loss risk in European vs. U.S. based venture capital investments
Primary audience: Professionals, academics, and graduate students in finance
Specifically: Institutional investors looking for new investment, legal staff of corporations
Interested in current trends in venture capital financing, and academics looking for new research on venture capital. Secondary readership:
Professional organizations and securities regulators specializing in alternative investment; students in courses on corporate finance, international finance, entrepreneurial finance and alternative investments (book would be supplemental text).

A native of Montreal, Professor Greg N. Gregoriou obtained his joint Ph.D. in finance at the University of Quebec at Montreal which merges the resources of Montreal's four major universities McGill, Concordia, UQAM and HEC. Professor Gregoriou is Professor of Finance at State University of New York (Plattsburgh) and has taught a variety of finance courses such as Alternative Investments, International Finance, Money and Capital Markets, Portfolio Management, and Corporate Finance. He has also lectured at the University of Vermont, Universidad de Navarra and at the University of Quebec at Montreal.

Professor Gregoriou has published 50 books, 65 refereed publications in peer-reviewed journals and 24 book chapters since his arrival at SUNY Plattsburgh in August 2003. Professor Gregoriou's books have been published by McGraw-Hill, John Wiley & Sons, Elsevier-Butterworth/Heinemann, Taylor and Francis/CRC Press, Palgrave-MacMillan and Risk Books. Four of his books have been translated into Chinese and Russian. His academic articles have appeared in well-known peer-reviewed journals such as the Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Journal of Portfolio Management, Journal of Futures Markets, European Journal of Operational Research, Annals of Operations Research, Computers and Operations Research, etc.

Professor Gregoriou is the derivatives editor and editorial board member for the Journal of Asset Management as well as editorial board member for the Journal of Wealth Management, the Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions, Market Integrity, IEB International Journal of Finance, and the Brazilian Business Review. Professor Gregoriou's interests focus on hedge funds, funds of funds, commodity trading advisors, managed futures, venture capital and private equity. He has also been quoted several times in the New York Times, Barron's, the Financial Times of London, Le Temps (Geneva), Les Echos (Paris) and L'Observateur de Monaco. He has done consulting

*The only book in which academics from around the world present the latest research on venture capital in Europe*Covers all of Europe as well as including overview papers about venture capital industry, public and private venture capital, valuation, financing, contracting, structuring, regulation, etc. *Comprehensive, authoritative coverage