The Importance of Trust for Investment: Evidence from Venture Capital

Laura Bottazzi, Marco Da Rin, Thomas F. Hellmann

NBER Working Paper No. 16923
Issued in April 2011

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We thank Manuel Arellano, Jim Brander, Bruce Carlin, Francesco Corielli, Serdar Dinç, Alex Dyck, Florian Ederer, Dan Elfenbein, Daniel Ferreira, Patrick Francois, Keith Head, Ulrich Hege, Yael Hochberg, Bertrand Melenberg, Ramana Nanda, Frank Packer, Michele Pellizzari, Enrico Perotti, Mitch Petersen, Paola Sapienza, Per Strömberg, Ravi Singh, Morten Sørensen, Scott Stern, Alexander Wagner, Ralph Winter, Rebecca Zarutskie, Luigi Zingales, and participants to several conferences and and to seminars at Bocconi University, CEMFI, Industry Canada (Ottawa), Indian School of Business (Hyderabad), MIT (Sloan), Northwestern University (Kellogg), Rennsselaer Polytech (Lally), University of British Columbia (Sauder School), University of Toronto (Rotman), University of Washington, St. Louis (Olin), and University of Wisconsin (Madison). We are grateful to all the venture capital firms that provided us with data. We thank Roberto Bonfatti, Michela Braga, Matteo Ercole, and Alessandro Gavazzeni for research assistance. Financial support from the W. Maurice Young Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Research Centre, the Italian Ministry of Research (FIRB grant RBAU013CNJ) and the European Commission (grant CIT5-CT-2006-028942) is gratefully acknowledged. All errors remain our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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