Braun, Reiner; Engel, Nico; Hieber, Peter; Zagst, Rudi - In: Journal of Empirical Finance 18 (2011) 5, pp. 815-832
' risk appetite is negatively related to the ownership stake in the buyout target company. …Using a unique proprietary data set of 460 realized buyouts completed between 1990 and 2005, we examine the risk … appetite of private equity (PE) sponsors in different states of the PE market and analyze key determinants of deal-level equity …