The growth of socially responsible investment on public financial markets has drawn considerable academic attention over the last decade. Discarding from previous literature, this paper sets up to analyze the Private Equity channel, which is shown to have the potentiality to foster sustainable...

Our area of interest is the relationship between Private Equity professionals and the CEOs of companies. Building on previous research on board-CEO relationship and on venture capital and management buyout governance, we aim at complementing the frequently used agency theory perspective by way...

Our area of interest is the relationship between Private Equity professionals and the CEOs of companies. Building on previous research on board-CEO relationship and on venture capital and management buyout governance, we aim at complementing the frequently used agency theory perspective by way...

De nombreux travaux soutiennent que les CVCs (Corporate Venture Capitalists) financent des investissements ayant une rentabilité moindre que les IVCs (Independent Venture Capitalists). Plusieurs explications sont avancées. La plus fréquente est que les CVCs, assurés d'un refinancement...

This paper considers an international sample of venture capital and private equity funds to assess the role of law, corruption and culture in setting fund manager fees in terms of their fixed management fees, carried interest performance fees, clawbacks of fees and cash versus share...

L'investissement des firmes dans la recherche et le développement (R&D) est la clé pour une croissance économique pérenne. Notre étude a pour but d'analyser la façon dont ces entreprises innovantes se financent et si, en France, le mode de financement de ces structures primordiales pour...

This paper sheds light on the impact sustainable and unsustainable corporate practices have on equity financing. We present a unique framed field experiment in which professional private equity investors competed in closed auctions to acquire fictive firms. We hence observe that corporate...