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Essays in Financial Economics
This thesis consists of three chapters that study separate subjects in the area of corporate governance and financial intermediation.
In the first chapter, I study a protectionist anti-takeover law introduced in 2014 in France that covers a subset of all ...
EPFL2020Necessity entrepreneurship and industry choice in new firm creation
Research Summary Research on necessity entrepreneurship has generated important insights, yet it views necessity entrepreneurs in developed countries as one encompassing group of unemployed individuals-ignoring that the level of need is not uniform but ins ...
WILEY2019Transnational Investments of the Tunisian Diaspora: Trajectories, Skills Accumulation and Constraints
This chapter is based on recent empirical data on Tunisians living in Switzerland. It focuses on their migration pathways and experiences, and it examines their propensity to engage in entrepreneurial and business activities in their home country. Despite ...
Springer International Publishing2019Navigating the validity tradeoffs of entrepreneurship research experiments: A systematic review and best-practice suggestions
Experimental methods provide important advantages for advancing academic understanding of entrepreneurship. Yet, the complex and comingled relationships between some of entrepreneurship's key characteristics pose thorny methodological challenges to entrepr ...
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019Three Essays in Banking and Finance
This thesis develops three models that study the motivation of various agents to take on debt,
and the impact that excessive financial leverage can have on social welfare.
In the chapter "Short-term Bank Leverage and the Value of Liquid Reserves", the ince ...
EPFL2019Entrepreneurial advice sources and their antecedents Venture stage, innovativeness and internationalization
Christopher Tucci, Bettina Lynda Bastian
Purpose - Entrepreneurs interact with others and, through this, benefit from access to knowledge, resources and skills that enhance their own entrepreneurial and organizational capabilities. This paper aims to contribute to the literature interested in ide ...
Emerald Group Publishing Ltd2017Entrepreneurial Behavior: A Reconceptualization and Extension Based on Identity Theory
Research summaryEntrepreneurial behavior is core to our understanding of entrepreneurship. Yet, research progress is hindered because most studies adopt a traditional perspective of the construct that is embedded in economic rationality and focused on for- ...
Wiley2017THE SIGNALING VALUE OF REPUTATION AND STATUS: EVIDENCE FROM VC-BACKED ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURES IN THE CLEANTECH SECTOR
We contribute to the ongoing debate on the differential effects of two important intangible assets on organizational outcomes: reputation and status. We explore whether they exert distinct signaling effects on external parties whom evaluate the quality of ...
2016Signaling and Self-regulation in Venture Capital
This thesis proposes three studies that provide novel empirical evidence on how different types of VCs' characteristics signal the quality of an entrepreneurial venture and influence investment strategies of funds subject to self-regulation. In the first s ...
EPFL2016Venture Debt Financing: Determinants of the Lending Decision
Venture debt lending is a form of start-up financing that lies at the intersection of venture capital and traditional debt. We analyze the lending decision criteria of 55 senior U.S. venture debt lenders (VDLs) using a discrete choice experiment in order t ...
Wiley-Blackwell2016