As recent research highlights that the Sharpe ratio has a decision theoretic foundation even in the case of asymmetric or fat-tailed excess returns and thus is adequate even for the evaluation of hedge funds, this note provides the first Sharpe ratio based performance analysis of the hedge fund...

Using a hand-collected sample of contracts and investment proposals from German venturecapital (VC) financing relationships, we find that experienced and or private law/independentVC firms rely to a lesser degree on debt financing and more on certain covenants in VC con-tracting even when we...

In this paper the relation between aggregate mutual fund flows and stock market returns isanalysed with respect to three issues. First, we study the relation between fund flows andlong-term realized returns (past, current and future). Second, we find out that fund flows arenot driven by...

Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Position von Venture Capital-Gesellschaften im jeweili-gen Syndizierungsnetzwerk und analysiert den Zusammenhang zwischen der Netz-werkposition der einzelnen Unternehmen und der Quantität und der Qualität der Investi-tionsgelegenheiten, die ihnen zur Verfügung...