Arbeitspapier

Moral hazard in VC finance: More expensive than you thought

Venture projects are fraught with exogenous market risk and endogenous agency risk. We apply a real options perspective to analyze the investment decision of the venture capitalist (VC) in this set-up. The solutions presented are conflictive: the VC reduces his exposure to exogenous risk by delaying investments to wait for informational updates (delay option), but he mitigates endogenous risk by advancing investments to discover entrepreneur's effort. So far, papers focus on the optimal timing of investments considering independence of exogenous and endogenous risk. We show that interdependence of exogenous risk and endogenous risk exists. We find that endogenous risk prompts the VC to accelerate the discovery process when exogenous risk is high, and to abandon the delay option when it is most valuable.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Hohenheim Discussion Papers in Business, Economics and Social Sciences ; No. 02-2017

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
Investment Banking; Venture Capital; Brokerage; Ratings and Ratings Agencies
General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium: Financial Markets
Thema
Venture Capital
Real Option
Agency Cost
Moral Hazard

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Tennert, Julius
Lambert, Marie
Burghof, Hans-Peter
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Universität Hohenheim, Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
(wo)
Stuttgart
(wann)
2017

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-13315
Letzte Aktualisierung
2025-03-10T11:45:08+0100

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Tennert, Julius
  • Lambert, Marie
  • Burghof, Hans-Peter
  • Universität Hohenheim, Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

Entstanden

  • 2017

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