Discussions
Competition for Talent: The Impact of Venture Capital Flows on Incumbent Firms by Linghang Zeng (Babson College), KWC Conference on Entrepreneurial Finance
Board Dynamics over the Startup Life Cycle by Michael Ewens (Caltech) and Nadya Malenko (Michigan Ross), FIRS
Corporate Venture Capital and Firm Scope by Yifei Zhang (Toulouse School of Economics), MFA
Race, Discrimination, and Hedge Funds by Yan Lu (U of Central Florida), Narayan Naik (LBS), and Melvyn Teo (SMU Singapore), Annual Hedge Fund Conference
Size, returns and value added: Do private equity firms allocate capital according to manager skill? by Reiner Braun (TUM), Nils Dorau (TUM), Tim Jenkinson (U of Oxford), and Daniel Urban (Erasmus) , Columbia Private Equity Conference
Funding Black High-Growth Startups by Lisa Cook (Board), Matt Marx (Cornell), Emmanuel Yimfor (U of Michigan), MFA
Initial Public Offerings and Product Market Dynamics: New Perspectives from the Nielsen Retail Scanner Data by Xi Chen (U of Houston), Jingxuan Zhang (Boston College), MFA
How Venture Capitalists and Startups Bet on Each Other: Evidence From an Experimental System by Mehran Ebrahimian (SSE) and Ye Zhang (SSE), WFA
Conflicting Fiduciary Duties and Fire Sales of VC-backed Start-ups by Bo Bian (UBC), Casimiro Nigro (Goethe University), and Yingxiang Li (UBC), EFA
How Can Monitoring Benefit Investors? Evidence from 85 Billion Cell Phone Signals by Jack Fu (University of Pennsylvania), MFA
The Dynamics of Venture Capital Syndicates: The Effect of Prior Collaboration among VCs on Value Addition to Entrepreneurial Firms by Thomas Chemmanur (Boston College), Jiajie Xu (U of Iowa), Jingxuan Zhang (U o Alberta), and Xiang Zheng (University of Connecticut), Private Markets Research Conference
Networks in Venture Capital Markets by Can Huang (UIUC), FMA