Dr. Veikko Thiele is Associate Professor and Distinguished Faculty Fellow of Business Economics at the Stephen J.R. Smith School of Business. His research focuses on entrepreneurial finance, with the main emphasis on the interplay between different financial resources for start-up companies, such as angel investments and venture capital. In another stream of his research, Dr. Thiele examines performance evaluations and the efficient design of incentive schemes in organizations. His work has been published or is forthcoming in leading international journals, including the Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Labour Economics. He is the 2014 recipient of the Smith New Researcher Achievement Award.
Before he joined Queen’s University in the summer of 2009, Dr. Thiele was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia, where he was nominated for the Commerce Undergraduate Society’s Teaching Excellence Award in 2008. Dr. Thiele received his PhD in Economics from Humboldt University Berlin in 2006.
Product Returns, Customer Segmentation, and Dynamic Pricing in the Online Retail Market, 2024 (with Julia Otte and Konstantinos Serfes). Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, forthcoming.
Scaling versus Selling Startups: The Role of Foreign Acquirers in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, 2023 (with Thomas Hellmann). Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 1(2), 348-399.
May the Force be With You: Investor Power and Company Valuations, 2022 (with Thomas Hellmann). Journal of Corporate Finance, 72, 102163.
Competition in the Venture Capital Market and the Success of Startup Companies: Theory and Evidence, 2020 (with Suting Hong and Konstantinos Serfes). Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 29(4), 741-791.
Fostering Entrepreneurship: Promoting Founding or Funding?, 2019 (with Thomas Hellmann). Management Science, 65(6), 2502-2521.
Partner Uncertainty and the Dynamic Boundary of the Firm, 2017 (with Thomas Hellmann). American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 9(4), 277-302.
Friends or Foes? The Interrelationship between Angel and Venture Capital Markets, 2015 (with Thomas Hellmann). Journal of Financial Economics, 115(3), 639-653.
Subjective Performance Evaluations, Collusion, and Organizational Design, 2013. Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, 29(1), 35-59.
Incentives and Innovation: A Multi-tasking Approach, 2011 (with Thomas Hellmann). American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 3(1), 78-128.