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Equity-based Financial Slack and New Venture Performance: Evidence from matched single-founder ventures

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This paper examines whether equity-based financial slack in the form of relatively high levels of founding equity will systematically hurt new venture performance. Drawing on data on 445 single-founder new ventures over the period 2004-2007, it uses the propensity score matching method to estimate the average effect of equity-based financial slack on new venture performance. It finds a negative and statistically significant average effect. This implies that single-founder new ventures that started out with relatively high levels of founding equity subsequently had a relatively low rate of profitability on average. The underlying mechanisms behind this empirical finding are explored, and the implications for the development of existing theory and practice are discussed.

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  • Morgan, Horatio M., 2013. "Equity-based Financial Slack and New Venture Performance: Evidence from matched single-founder ventures," MPRA Paper 50325, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    Financial slack; Founding equity; New venture; Propensity score matching.;
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    JEL classification:

    • G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
    • L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
    • M13 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - New Firms; Startups

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