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Performance Persistence in Entrepreneurship

Performance Persistence in Entrepreneurship Published: December 3, 2008 Paper Released: September 2008...(more)

Entrepreneurial Finance: A Casebook

by Paul A. Gompers (Author), William Sahlman (Author) Paperback: 704 pagesPublisher: Wiley (December 8, 2008)http://www.amazon.com/Entrepreneurial-Finance-Casebook-Paul-Gomp...(more)

The Venture Capital Cycle, 2nd Edition

The Venture Capital Cycle, 2nd Edition by Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner (Paperback - Sep 1, 2006) MIT Press, CambridgeAmazon.com Review In the last 25 years, the venture-capital industry has grown f...(more)

Skill vs. Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital: Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs

Paul Gompers, Anna Kovner, Josh Lerner, and David Scharfstein July 2006

Incentives vs. Control: An Analysis of U.S. Dual-class Companies

November 2003, (with Joy Ishii and Andrew Metrick.)

Assessing the Performance of Private Equity Funds

January 2003 (with Josh Lerner)

The Money of Invention

The Money of Invention: How Venture Capital Creates New Wealth by Paul A. Gompers and Josh Lerner (Hardcover - Nov 15, 2001) (Harvard Business School Press, Boston) November 2001...(more)

An Analysis of Executive Compensation, Ownership, and Control in Entrepreneurial Firms

May 2000, (with Malcolm Baker.)

Ownership and Control in Entrepreneurial Firms: An Examination of Convertible Securities in Venture Capital Investment.

January 2000

Myth or Reality? The Long-Run Underperformance of Initial Public Offerings: Evidence from Venture and Nonventure Capital-backed Companies

Journal of Finance 52, 1791-1821 December 1997. (with Alon Brav, Duke University.) Awarded the Smith-Breeden Distinguished Paper Award. We investigate the long-run underperformance of recent ini...(more)

The Use of Covenants: An Empirical Analysis of Venture Partnership Agreements

Journal of Law and Economics 39, 463-498. October 1996. (with Josh Lerner). This paper examines covenants in 140 partnership agreements establishing venture capital funds that were executed betwe...(more)

Grandstanding in the Venture Capital Industry

Journal of Financial Economics 42, 133-156. July 1996. I develop and test the hypothesis that young venture capital firms bring companies pubic earlier than older venture capital firms in order t...(more)

Optimal Investment, Monitoring, and the Staging of Venture

Journal of Finance 50, 1461-1489. December 1995. Reprinted in Michael Wright and Ken Robbie, editors, Venture Capital (International Library of Management) (Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing, 1997)....(more)