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• Convertible Preferred Stock in Venture Capital Financing

  BNET - 2006-03-01

  This paper provides an explanation for the widespread use of senior convertible preferred stock in venture capital financing. One develops a model of cash constrained entrepreneurs who need an investor to finance their project. Investors can either be uninformed, such as small individual bondholders, or informed, such as venture capitalists...

  Tags: Convertible Preferred Stock, Investor, University Of Oxford, Venture Capital, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Financing Startups

• The word in the City.

  - 2005-11-11

  Those dextrous lexicographers at the Oxford University Press have come up with rather a fun wheeze. A few weeks ago, they published a book that lists the 'new word' of the year, for each of the past 100 years. And as well as solving a number...

  Tags: equity, FINANCE, financial, Investment, investor, University of Oxford

• Entrepreneurial Finance With Heterogeneous Investors

  BNET - 2004-07-07

  This paper presents a model of cash constrained entrepreneurs, who raise money from uninformed investors such as shareholders or bond holders, or from informed investors like venture capitalists or banks. There is a moral hazard problem, which can be partially overcome through monitoring by informed investors. However, monitoring is only...

  Tags: Entrepreneurial, Bond, Investor, University Of Oxford, Financial Accounting, Finance

• Global Integration in Primary Equity Markets: The Role of U.S. Banks and U.S. Investors

  BNET - 2001-04-10

  This paper examines the costs and benefits of the global integration of primary equity markets associated with the parallel diffusion of U.S. underwriting methods. It analyzes both direct and indirect costs (associated with under-pricing) using a unique dataset of 2,143 IPOs by non-U.S. issuers from 65 countries in 1992-1999. Book...

  Tags: U.S., Equity, Investor, University Of Oxford, Integration, Investment, Financial Services, IPO, Finance