Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/153555 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 1121
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We study the relative effect of venture capital and bank finance on large manufacturing firms in local U.S. markets. Theory predicts that with venture capital, the firm size distribution should become more stretched-out to the right, but it’s ambiguous on the effect of banks on large firms. The empirical evidence suggests that while the average size of firms in the top bin of the firm size distribution has remained unaffected by banking sector developments, it has increased with venture capital investment. We argue that this is due to the emergence of new corporate giants rather than the growth of existing ones.
Subjects: 
banking
firm size
Venture Capital
JEL: 
G24
J24
L11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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