Im Sommer 2003 beschlossen die StartUp-Initiative und das Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies (CEFS), gemeinsam eine wissenschaftliche Untersuchung durchzuführen, um Erkenntnisse über die aktuelle Entwicklung junger, innovativer Unternehmen in Deutschland zu gewinnen. Im...

In this paper, we present a new approach to measure the returns of private equity investments based on a stochastic model of the dynamics of a private equity fund. Our stochastic model of a private equity fund consists of two independent stages: the stochastic model of the capital drawdowns and...