TY - UNPD A1 - Hirsch, Julia T1 - Public policy and venture capital financed innovation: a contract design approach T2 - Center for Financial Studies (Frankfurt am Main): CFS working paper series ; No. 2006,29 N2 - The effects of public policy programs which aim at internalizing spill-overs due to successful innovation are analyzed in a sequential double-sided moral hazard doublesided adverse selection framework. The central focus lies in analyzing their impact on contract design. We show that in our framework only ex post grants are a robust instrument for implementing the first-best situation, whereas the success of guarantee programs, ex ante grants and some types of investment grants depends strongly on the characteristics of the project: in certain cases they not only give no further incentives but even destroy contract mechanisms and so worsen the outcome. JEL Classification: D82, G24, G32, H25, H81 T3 - CFS working paper series - 2006, 29 KW - Public Policy KW - Contract Design KW - Venture Capital KW - Moral Hazard KW - Asymmetric Information KW - Öffentliche Ordnung KW - Risikokapital KW - Moral Hazard KW - Asymmetrische Information Y1 - 2006 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1632 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-38039 N1 - Version Dezember 2006 IS - This Version Dezember 2006 ER -