Arbeitspapier
The Optimal Portfolio of Start-Up Firms in Venture Capital Finance
A venture capitalist faces a trade-off between the extent of managerial advice allocated to each start-up and the total number of firms advised. Diminishing returns to advice per firm call for a larger portfolio. As advice gets diluted, further expansion of the portfolio eventually becomes unprofitable.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 381
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
- Subject
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Venture capital finance
double-sided moral hazard
company portfolio
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Kanniainen, Vesa
Keuschnigg, Christian
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (where)
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Munich
- (when)
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2000
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Kanniainen, Vesa
- Keuschnigg, Christian
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2000