This study examines how the performance of cross-border venture capital investments is
affected by national institutional and cultural distances between the environments of venture …

Finance is staged in entrepreneurial settings. It has been argued that staging has a
drawback: entrepreneurs manipulate short-term appearances to keep funds flowing. In …

Given the importance that entrepreneurship and start-up businesses in technology-intensive
sectors like life sciences, renewable energy, artificial intelligence, financial technologies …

Corporate governance includes legal, contractual, and market mechanisms that structure
decision-making within business corporations. Most attention has focused on corporate …

The modern organization is “a nexus of contracts” among various stakeholders. In this two-
essay study, I examine how contracts surrounding entrepreneurial firms, namely contracts …

This dissertation studies dynamic contracting models with present bias. The present bias is
commonly modeled in two ways, dual-self present bias and hyperbolic discounting present …