Arbeitspapier

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.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 217

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
Convertible securities
venture capital
corporate finance
double moral hazard
incomplete contracts

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Schmidt, Klaus
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(where)
Munich
(when)
1999

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

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

Time of origin

  • 1999

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