Michael Ewens

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Michael Ewens is a scholar working on Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Ewens has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Accounting, 17 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation and 17 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Michael Ewens's work include Corporate Finance and Governance (36 papers), Private Equity and Venture Capital (35 papers) and Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (17 papers). Michael Ewens is often cited by papers focused on Corporate Finance and Governance (36 papers), Private Equity and Venture Capital (35 papers) and Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (17 papers). Michael Ewens collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Michael Ewens's co-authors include Matthew Rhodes‐Kropf, Richard Townsend, Ramana Nanda, Joan Farre-Mensa, Liang Choon Wang, Matt Marx, Indraneel Chakraborty, Charles M. Jones, Alexander S. Gorbenko and Arthur G. Korteweg and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Management Science.

In The Last Decade

Michael Ewens

41 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Are early stage investors biased against women? 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 50 100 150
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Are early stage investors biased against women?
    2019 176 citations Michael Ewens, Richard Townsend Journal of Financial Economics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Ewens United States 15 854 413 331 210 199 46 1.3k
Darush Yazdanfar Sweden 17 737 0.9× 362 0.9× 157 0.5× 97 0.5× 81 0.4× 58 1.1k
Paige Ouimet United States 17 913 1.1× 638 1.5× 142 0.4× 306 1.5× 72 0.4× 47 1.3k
Rebecca Zarutskie United States 15 1.2k 1.4× 687 1.7× 452 1.4× 493 2.3× 52 0.3× 53 1.6k
Eva Lutz Germany 15 416 0.5× 236 0.6× 360 1.1× 117 0.6× 155 0.8× 53 1.0k
Tensie Steijvers Belgium 20 1.3k 1.5× 261 0.6× 799 2.4× 185 0.9× 122 0.6× 53 1.8k
Rajeswararao Chaganti United States 10 989 1.2× 205 0.5× 317 1.0× 124 0.6× 113 0.6× 18 1.5k
Yacine Belghitar United Kingdom 18 859 1.0× 336 0.8× 212 0.6× 176 0.8× 98 0.5× 41 1.2k
Chandra S. Mishra United States 16 1.2k 1.4× 223 0.5× 453 1.4× 154 0.7× 81 0.4× 54 1.6k
Yuhai Xuan United States 20 1.9k 2.2× 461 1.1× 157 0.5× 902 4.3× 98 0.5× 40 2.2k
Cesare Fracassi United States 12 1.2k 1.4× 459 1.1× 64 0.2× 431 2.1× 126 0.6× 21 1.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chen, Jun & Michael Ewens. (2025). Venture Capital and Startup Agglomeration. The Journal of Finance. 80(4). 2153–2198.
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Ewens, Michael, Kairong Xiao, & Ting Xu. (2024). Regulatory costs of being public: Evidence from bunching estimation. Journal of Financial Economics. 153. 103775–103775. 7 indexed citations
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Ewens, Michael, Ramana Nanda, & Christopher Stanton. (2024). Founder‐CEO Compensation and Selection into Venture Capital‐Backed Entrepreneurship. The Journal of Finance. 79(5). 3361–3405. 1 indexed citations
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Ewens, Michael. (2022). Race and Gender in Entrepreneurial Finance. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Ewens, Michael & Joan Farre-Mensa. (2021). Private or Public Equity? The Evolving Entrepreneurial Finance Landscape. SSRN Electronic Journal. 8 indexed citations
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Ewens, Michael, Ramana Nanda, & Christopher Stanton. (2020). Founder-CEO Compensation and Selection into Venture Capital-Backed Entrepreneurship. SocArXiv (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations
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Ewens, Michael & Nadya Malenko. (2020). Board Dynamics over the Startup Life Cycle. SocArXiv (OSF Preprints).
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Ewens, Michael & Joan Farre-Mensa. (2020). The Deregulation of the Private Equity Markets and the Decline in IPOs. Review of Financial Studies. 33(12). 5463–5509. 98 indexed citations
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Ewens, Michael, Ramana Nanda, & Christopher Stanton. (2020). The Evolution of CEO Compensation in Venture Capital Backed Startups. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations
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Ewens, Michael, Kairong Xiao, & Ting Xu. (2020). Regulatory Costs of Being Public: Evidence from Bunching Estimation. SocArXiv (OSF Preprints). 7 indexed citations
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Ewens, Michael & Richard Townsend. (2020). Are Early Stage Investors Biased Against Women?. SocArXiv (OSF Preprints). 3 indexed citations
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Ewens, Michael, Alexander S. Gorbenko, & Arthur G. Korteweg. (2020). Venture Capital Contracts. SocArXiv (OSF Preprints). 8 indexed citations
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Ewens, Michael & Matt Marx. (2017). Founder Replacement and Startup Performance. Review of Financial Studies. 31(4). 1532–1565. 113 indexed citations
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Chakraborty, Indraneel & Michael Ewens. (2017). Managing Performance Signals Through Delay: Evidence from Venture Capital. Management Science. 64(6). 2875–2900. 46 indexed citations
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Ewens, Michael. (2017). Can Access to Capital Explain the Entrepreneurship Gender Gap?. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Ewens, Michael, Ramana Nanda, & Matthew Rhodes‐Kropf. (2015). Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital. SSRN Electronic Journal. 42 indexed citations
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Ewens, Michael & Matthew Rhodes‐Kropf. (2015). Is a VC Partnership Greater Than the Sum of Its Partners?. The Journal of Finance. 70(3). 1081–1113. 94 indexed citations
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Ewens, Michael & Matt Marx. (2015). Executive Replacement in Venture Capital-Backed Startups. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2015(1). 15059–15059. 6 indexed citations
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Ewens, Michael, et al.. (2012). Statistical Discrimination or Prejudice? A Large Sample Field Experiment. SSRN Electronic Journal. 27 indexed citations
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Ewens, Michael & Matthew Rhodes‐Kropf. (2012). Is a VC Partnership Greater than the Sum of its Partners?. SSRN Electronic Journal. 6 indexed citations

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