Category: Finance

Finance, Technology

Place and its Role in Venture Capital Funding

By Luke Heine. Harvard College.
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How are city demographics correlated with the amount of venture capital they receive? The paper uses a unique dataset of ~58,000 venture deals from 2000 – 2014 from the CrunchBase dataset and census data from the same period. Continue reading Place and its Role in Venture Capital Funding

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Finance

Examining the Presence of Luck and Skill in Mutual Fund Returns

By Joe Matten. Stanford University.
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I wrote the following essay for Professor Shoven’s class, “A Random Walk Down Wall Street.” Inspired by Burton Malkiel’s book of the same name, the class featured discussions of the major topics and themes of the work… Continue reading Examining the Presence of Luck and Skill in Mutual Fund Returns

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