Matthias van den Heuvel
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October 24, 2022 - Article
After a venture capital boom and bust in clean energy investments in the early 2000s, investors and policymakers have recently shown renewed interest in green startups. In The Role of Venture Capital and Governments in Clean Energy: Lessons from the First Cleantech Bubble (NBER Working Paper 29919),...
We use machine learning algorithms to construct a novel news-based index of US environmental and climate policy uncertainty (EnvPU) available on a monthly basis over the 1990-2019 period. We find that our EnvPU index spikes during the environmental spending disputes of the 1995-1996 government...
The role of Venture Capital and Governments in Clean Energy: Lessons from the First Cleantech Bubble
After a boom and bust cycle in the early 2010s, venture capital (VC) investments are, once again, flowing towards green businesses. In this paper, we use Crunchbase data on 150,000 US startups founded between 2000 and 2020 to better understand why VC initially did not prove successful in funding new...
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