TY - BOOK ID - 30703448 TI - Venture capital investment: an agency analysis of practice PY - 1998 SN - 1280330384 0203066243 0415179696 0415757436 1134681356 9780203066249 9780415179690 9781134681358 9781134681303 1134681305 9781134681341 1134681348 9780415757430 0203208048 9780203208045 PB - London Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Venture capital KW - Risk capital KW - Seed capital KW - 333.633 KW - GB / United Kingdom - Verenigd Koninkrijk - Royaume Uni KW - 658.14 KW - 658.14 Financing. Funding of enterprises. Raising of capital KW - Financing. Funding of enterprises. Raising of capital KW - Capital KW - Small business KW - Small business investment companies KW - Aandelen KW - Finance KW - Investment management UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30703448 AB - Gavin Reid presents a systematic analysis of what drives investor-investee relations in venture capital markets. In the first analytical work to use a unified framework, he draws upon a modern and general approach to contracting relations, namely principal-agent analysis. This book establishes a clear theoretical framework involving risk management, information handling and the 'trading' of risk and information. Using powerful modern theory as a general and coherent frame of reference to analyse an extensive body of new evidence, the author shows how top investors manage risk and monitor inves ER -