Limited partners (LPs) of private equity funds commit to invest with extreme levels of illiquidity and significant uncertainty regarding the timing of capital flows. Secondary markets have emerged which alleviate some of the associated cost. This paper develops a subjective valuation model...

Sie gehören zu den einflussreichsten Finanzinvestoren weltweit. Ihre Fonds verwalten Kapital in Milliardenhöhe. Sie verfügen über exzellente Kontakte zu Entscheidungsträgern in Wirtschaft und Politik. Beide haben ihren Hauptsitz in einer der bedeutendsten Finanzmetropolen, New York.Wenn die...

Using a large sample of institutional investors' investments in private equity funds raised between 1991 and 2011, we estimate the extent to which investors' skill affects their returns. Bootstrap analyses show that the variance of actual performance is higher than would be expected by chance,...

Anecdotal evidence suggests that investor protection affects the demand for equity, but existing theories emphasize only the effect of investor protection on the supply of equity. We build a model showing that the demand for equity is important in explaining financial development. If the level...

This paper investigates the role of private equity (PE) in failed bank resolutions after the 2008 financial crisis, using proprietary FDIC failed bank acquisition data. PE investors made substantial investments in underperforming and riskier failed banks, particularly in geographies where local...

The financial crisis revealed the extent of the global financial system's interconnectedness. Regulators are challenged to find new means of identifying and tackling sources of risk. A regulatory focus on micro, rather than macro prudential (i.e. network-based), models may explain recent...