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Showing 1 to 20 of 133 for “"Private Equity"”.
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Private Equity Executive Compensation
… compare compensation arrangements of firms with private equity and public debt and firms with arrangements public equity and public debt. In a sample of 77 firms, I find that privately held firms offer less bonus compensation in levels, but more as a percentage of total income, less equity …
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Due Diligence im Private Equity – Einsatz und Rolle quantitativer Methoden bei Private Equity Transaktionen
… Arbeitsweise und das Entscheidungsverhalten von Private Equity Professionals in der Transaktionspraxis. Ausgehend von einer empirischen Beurteilung von Due Diligence mit Hinblick auf die Notwendigkeit ihrer Durchführung im Kontext von Informations- und Prognoseproblem zeigt die Untersuchung auf, …
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Private equity ownership and financial misreporting
I study whether private equity (PE) ownership is associated with portfolio firms’ financial misreporting by examining the occurrence of restatements and SEC enforcement actions during the post-IPO period. Using a sample of firms that went public between 1998 and 2015, I find that PE-backed firms …
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Private Equity and Product Quality in Healthcare
<p>This dissertation explores the effects of private equity (PE) investment on product quality among healthcare providers. In the first essay, I study the determinants of PE manager behavior, focusing on the role of product market competition. Using the nursing home setting as a backdrop, I …
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Private equity, disclosure quality, and audit quality
… the influence of disclosure/audit quality on private equity funds’ investment decisions, and the relationship between private equity ownership and disclosure/audit quality. Using Preqin and FAME data, I find that PE funds are more likely to invest in firms with superior financial statement …
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Developing a private equity business in China
The private equity business, a good complement to the public equity market and the debt market, has been playing an increasing role in China. However, there is no universal formula for doing this business. As an art rather than a science, it varies from country to country. After two decades of …
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Private equity fund valuation management during fundraising
I investigate whether and how private equity fund managers (GPs) inflate their interim fund valuations (net asset values or NAVs) during fundraising periods. Specifically, I study the extent to which the GPs inflate NAVs by managing valuation assumptions (e.g., valuation multiples), influencing the …
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Private Equity Financing in Zambia: Determinants and Constraints
… employees which crowds out lending to SMEs. Private equity financing, on the other hand, presents an alternative solution to the long-term financing dilemma faced by enterprises. The Zambian private equity market is itself in a nascent space but shows much potential. This dissertation seeks …
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Incubating financial development : private equity and the state
… amount of state-related funds behind private equity (PE) investments, both in emerging and developed economies. Combining these two observations and using comparative case analysis to study the emergence of private equity markets, this dissertation proposes a shift in arguments about …
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Challenges and opportunities in the Tunisian private equity sector
Most of the studies and research analyzing the private equity ("PE") sector in the Middle East North Africa ("MENA") region tend to focus more on the Middle East and less on North Africa. The case of Tunisia is probably the most appealing within the North African region regarding the …
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Economic modeling of Korean private equity market through comparisons of market structures and investment strategies between the Korean and American private equity market
… resources to selected industries or firms. The private equity market is an efficient resource allocation system that provides equity capital to the firms not quoted in the stock market. However, a private equity market is difficult to develop not only due to the high risk characteristics of the …
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Competitive Strategy of Private Equity: Boundary of the Investment Firm
Die Private Equity (PE)-Branche entwickelt sich weiter, viele Firmen verändern grundlegend ihre strategischen Positionen, und Indikatoren signalisieren, dass eine Modifikation des weitverbreiteten Bildes von PE als monolithische Finanzierungstechnik längst überfällig ist. Aus unterschiedlichen …
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Understanding Responsible Investment in Private Equity: Challenges & Opportunities in Uganda
… a considerable reliance by the Government and private individuals on debt capital as a source of financing for development infrastructure, business growth and development, respectively. However, with the recent trends in the global world economy, including; the world financial crisis between …
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