The Dance Between Government and Private Investors: Public Entrepreneurial Finance around the Globe
This paper examines the interaction between governments and private capital investors when financing early-stage ventures. We first provide a simple conceptual framework to explore when collaboration between governments and private investors is likely to emerge. Using hand-collected data on 755 programs worldwide, we find that government programs frequently involve private capital investors. Collaboration is greater when governments are more effective, when programs target earlier-stage companies, and when the local private venture market is more developed. Such collaborations mostly occur through joint equity investments and matching-funds requirements. These findings underscore the importance of government synergies with local private capital markets.
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Copy CitationJessica Bai, Shai Bernstein, Abhishek Dev, and Josh Lerner, "The Dance Between Government and Private Investors: Public Entrepreneurial Finance around the Globe," NBER Working Paper 28744 (2021), https://doi.org/10.3386/w28744.
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