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Money chasing deals and chasing money - the impact of supply and demand on buyout performance

Gottshalg, Oliver; Zipser, Daniel - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2006

This paper analyzes the impact of differences in supply of and demand for private equity financing on the performance … buyout performance decreases when large volumes of private equity commitments are looking for suit-able acquisition targets … acquisition prices (and thereby transaction performance) depend on the competition by a limited number of private equity fund …

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The performance of private equity funds

Oliver, Gottschalg; Ludovic, Phalippou - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2006

living dead investments. After correcting for sample bias and overstated accounting values, average fund performance changes … from slight over performance to substantial underperformance of -3.83% per year with respect to the S&P 500. Assuming a … stunning growth in the amount allocated to this asset class cannot be attributed to genuinely high past performance. They …

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Is the luxury industry really a financier’s dream ?

Kapferer, Jean-Noël; Tabatoni, Olivier - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2010

Although modest in terms of sales, compared to most other sectors, luxury does get a high share of investors', financial analysts’ and media attention. Why would this sector receive a share of attention much bigger than its actual weight? Is it because of its glamourous image, or the...

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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature

Nathan, Max - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...

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Equilibrium Fast Trading

Biais, Bruno; Foucault, Thierry; Moinas, Sophie - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2013

High-speed market connections and information processing improve …nancial institutions'ability to seize trading opportunities, which raises gains from trade. They also enable fast traders to process information before slow traders, which generates adverse selection. We fi…rst analyze trading...

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Preferential regulatory treatment and banks' demand for government bonds

Bonner, Clemens - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2014

Government bonds receive preferential treatment in financial regulation. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of this preferential treatment on banks' demand for government bonds. Using unique transaction-level data, our analysis suggests that preferential treatment in liquidity...

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Banks and Innovation: Microeconometric Evidence on Italian Firms

Benfratello, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Sembenelli, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper we investigate the effect of local banking development on firms’ innovative activities, using a rich data set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990’s. There is evidence that banking development affects the probability of process innovation,...

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Simulations in the Dutch interbank payment system: A sensitivity analysis

Heijmans, Ronald - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2009

This paper presents an analysis on the sensitivity of the Dutch interbank payment system with respect to the value transferred and the amount of available collateral. The Dutch system can be characterised as a system with a few large and many relatively small participants.Historical data has...

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A tale of the water-supplying plumber: intraday liquidity provision in payment systems

Ledrut, Elisabeth - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2006

This paper provides an overview of the literature on intraday credit in payment systems to date and explores the dilemma central banks face when deciding on their intraday credit policies. On the one hand, any strategy in which the costs of liquidity are not fully borne by payment system...

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Simulating retaliation in payment systems: Can banks control their exposure to a failing participant?

Ledrut, Elisabeth - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2007

This paper assesses the impact of an operational failure at one of the biggest participants in the Dutch interbank payment system, varying the time at which the disruption takes place. Liquidity levels equal historical levels. The impact of such a disruption is quantified in terms of the...

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