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 …

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 …

This paper investigates the performance impact of undertaking activities through scale alliances with competitors …