Disciplining Delegated Monitors: When Venture Capitalists Fail to Prevent Fraud by Their IPO Firms

69 Pages Posted: 10 Mar 2011 Last revised: 1 Sep 2015

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Xuan Tian

Tsinghua University - PBC School of Finance

Gregory F. Udell

Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance

Xiaoyun Yu

Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) - Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI); National University of Singapore (NUS) - Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER); China Academy of Financial Research (CAFR)

Date Written: August 31, 2015

Abstract

Information-based theories of financial intermediation focus on delegated monitoring. However, there is little evidence on how markets discipline intermediaries who fail at this function. We exploit the direct link between corporate fraud and monitoring failure and examine how a venture capital (VC) firm’s reputation is affected when it fails to prevent fraud in its portfolio companies. We find that reputation-damaged VCs interact differently in the future with their limited partners, other VCs, and IPO underwriters because they are perceived as ineffective monitors. In addition, VCs that fail to prevent fraud experience greater difficulty in taking future portfolio companies public.

Keywords: Corporate Fraud, Initial Public Offerings, Financial Intermediaries, Reputation, Venture Capital

JEL Classification: D01, D85, G2, G24, G3, K4

Suggested Citation

Tian, Xuan and Udell, Gregory F. and Yu, Xiaoyun, Disciplining Delegated Monitors: When Venture Capitalists Fail to Prevent Fraud by Their IPO Firms (August 31, 2015). Sixth Singapore International Conference on Finance 2012 Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1782238 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1782238

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