Taxation and Venture Capital Backed Entrepreneurship

University of St. Gallen Economics Discussion Paper No. 2003-17

34 Pages Posted: 13 Oct 2003

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Christian Keuschnigg

University of St. Gallen – Department of Economics (FGN-HSG); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Swiss Finance Institute

Soren Bo Nielsen

Copenhagen Business School - Department of Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

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Date Written: September 2003

Abstract

In recent years, venture capital has increasingly become a factor in the financing of new firms. We examine how the value of mature firms determines the incentives of entrepreneurs to start up new firms and of venture capitalists to finance and advise them. We examine how capital gains taxes as well as subsidies to start-up costs of new firms affect venture capital backed entrepreneurship. We also argue that dividend and capital gains taxes on mature firms have important consequences for start-up firms as well.

Keywords: Taxes, venture capital, entrepreneurship, double moral hazard

JEL Classification: D82, G24, H24, H25

Suggested Citation

Keuschnigg, Christian and Nielsen, Soren Bo, Taxation and Venture Capital Backed Entrepreneurship (September 2003). University of St. Gallen Economics Discussion Paper No. 2003-17, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=450401 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.450401

Christian Keuschnigg (Contact Author)

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Soren Bo Nielsen

Copenhagen Business School - Department of Economics ( email )

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Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

London
United Kingdom

CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

Poschinger Str. 5
Munich, DE-81679
Germany

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