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- Publications
- Influence
Corporate Governance and Equity Prices
- Paul A. Gompers, Joy L. Ishii, Andrew Metrick
- 1 August 2001
Corporate-governance provisions related to takeover defenses and shareholder rights vary substantially across firms. In this paper, we use the incidence of 24 different provisions to build a… Expand
Entrepreneurial Spawning: Public Corporations and the Genesis of New Ventures, 1986-1999
- Paul A. Gompers, David S. Scharfstein, J. Lerner
- Business
- 1 June 2003
This paper examines the factors that lead to the creation of venture capital backed start-ups, a process we term entrepreneurial spawning.' We contrast two alternative views of the spawning process.… Expand
Diversity in Innovation
- Paul A. Gompers, Sophie Calder-Wang
- Business
- 1 January 2017
In this paper we document the patterns of labor market participation by women and ethnic minorities in venture capital firms and as founders of venture capital-backed startups. We show that from… Expand
And the Children Shall Lead: Gender Diversity and Performance in Venture Capital
- Paul A. Gompers, Sophie Calder-Wang
- Economics
- 1 May 2017
With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we ask the natural next question: Does increased diversity lead to better firm… Expand
Venture Capital Investment Cycles: The Impact of Public Markets
- Paul A. Gompers, Anna Kovner, J. Lerner, David S. Scharfstein
- 1 May 2005
It is well documented that the venture capital industry is highly volatile and that much of this volatility is associated with shifting valuations and activity in public equity markets. This paper… Expand
Homophily in Entrepreneurial Team Formation
- Paul A. Gompers, K. Huang, Sophie Calder-Wang
- Psychology
- 1 May 2017
We study the role of homophily in group formation. Using a unique dataset of MBA students, we observe homophily in ethnicity and gender increases the probability of forming teams by 25%. Homophily in… Expand
The Cost of Friendship
- Paul A. Gompers, Vladimir Mukharlyamov, Yuhai Xuan
- 3 December 2014
We investigate how personal characteristics affect people's desire to collaborate and whether this attraction enhances or detracts from performance in venture capital. We find that venture… Expand