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Convertible Securities and Venture Capital Finance

This paper offers a new explanation for the prevalent use of convertible securities in venture capital finance. Convertible securities can be used to endogenously allocate cash flow rights as a function of the realized quality of the project. This property can be used to mitigate the double moral hazard problem be t ween the entrepreneur and the venture capitalist. It is shown that an optimally designed convertible security outperforms any mixture of debt and equity and that it can induce both parties to invest efficiently. The result is robust to renegotiation and t o changes in the timing of investments and information flows.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 217

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Convertible securities
venture capital
corporate finance
double moral hazard
incomplete contracts

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Schmidt, Klaus
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
1999

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Schmidt, Klaus
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 1999

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