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We evaluate the performance of limited partners' (LPs) private equity investments over time. Using a sample of 14,380 investments by 1,852 LPs in 1,250 buyout and venture funds started between 1991 and 2006, we find that the superior performance of endowment investors in the 1991-1998 period,...
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The moral hazard incentives of the bank safety net predict that distressed banks take on more risk and higher leverage … include financial crises and are subject to different regulatory regimes (1985–1994, 2005–2014). We find that distressed banks …
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Because uncertainty is high in bad times, investors find it harder to assess firm prospects and, hence, should value analyst output more. However, higher uncertainty makes analysts' tasks harder so it is unclear if analyst output is more valuable in bad times. We find that, in bad times, analyst...
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We examine the current state of the U.S. public corporation and how it has evolved over the last 40 years. After falling by 50 percent since its peak in 1997, the number of public corporations is now smaller than 40 years ago. These corporations are now much larger and over the last twenty years...
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Using a large sample of institutional investors' investments in private equity funds raised between 1991 and 2011, we estimate the extent to which investors' skill affects their returns. Bootstrap analyses show that the variance of actual performance is higher than would be expected by chance,...
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banks suffered significant outflows between June and August 2011. Due to credit market frictions, these outflows have … greater exposure to Eurozone banks decrease their holdings more than other funds. We show that relationships are important in …
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We investigate whether a bank’s performance during the 1998 crisis, which was viewed at the time as the most dramatic …. Another hypothesis is that a bank’s poor experience in a crisis is tied to aspects of its business model that are persistent …, so that its past performance during one crisis forecasts poor performance during another crisis. We show that banks that …
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We evaluate the effects of the 2009 Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) that provided intermediaries with sizeable financial incentives to renegotiate mortgages. HAMP increased intensity of renegotiations and prevented substantial number of foreclosures but reached just one-third of its...
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than banks, but invest in the same loan facilities. In a sample of 20,031 leveraged loan facilities originated between 1997 … constraints and when capital is less available from banks …
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