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Private Equity and the Innovation Strategies of Entrepreneurial Firms : Empirical Evidence from the Small Business Innovation Research Program

Link, Albert N. - 2012

There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth …. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of … Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program research awards. We find that SBIR firms attracting private equity investments are …

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Limited Partner Performance and the Maturing of the Private Equity Industry

Sensoy, Berk A. - 2013

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 Internationalization of Venture Capital and Private Equity

Aizenman, Joshua - 2008

This paper investigates the internationalization of venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) investments. We derive flows between countries of VC and PE investments worldwide, relying on comprehensive firm-level data sources, covering three decades and about 100 countries. A gravity analysis...

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Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure : The Role of Private Equity Sponsors

Katz, Sharon - 2008

This study explores how firms' ownership structures affect their earnings quality and long-term performance. Focusing on a unique sample of private firms for which there is financial data available in the years before and after their initial public offering (IPO), I differentiate between those...

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The Shifting Finance of Electricity Generation

Andonov, Aleksandar; Rauh, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Despite the incentives of incumbent domestic listed corporations (DLCs) in the electricity generation industry, private equity, institutional investors, and foreign corporations have played an outsized role in financing the energy transition. These new entrants are twice as likely to create...

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Venture capital and other private equity : a survey

Metrick, Andrew; Yasuda, Ayako - 2010

"We review the theory and evidence on venture capital (VC) and other private equity: why professional private equity exists, what private equity managers do with their portfolio companies, what returns they earn, who earns more and why, what determines the design of contracts signed between (i)...

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Private or Public Equity? The Evolving Entrepreneurial Finance Landscape

Ewens, Michael; Farre-Mensa, Joan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The U.S. entrepreneurial finance market has changed dramatically over the last two decades. Entrepreneurs raising their first round of venture capital retain 30% more equity in their firm and are more likely to control their board of directors. Late-stage startups are raising larger amounts of...

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Has Persistence Persisted in Private Equity? Evidence from Buyout and Venture Capital Funds

Harris, Robert S. - 2020

We present new evidence on the persistence of U.S. private equity (buyout and venture capital) funds using cash-flow data sourced from Burgiss's large sample of institutional investors. Previous research, studying largely pre-2000 data, finds strong persistence for both buyout and venture...

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The Consequences of Financial Innovation : A Counterfactual Research Agenda

Lerner, Josh - 2011

Financial innovation has been both praised as the engine of growth of society and castigated for being the source of … the weakness of the economy. In this paper, we review the literature on financial innovation and highlight the … similarities and differences between financial innovation and other forms of innovation. We also propose a research agenda to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461877

Venture Capital and Other Private Equity : A Survey

Metrick, Andrew - 2010

We review the theory and evidence on venture capital (VC) and other private equity: why professional private equity exists, what private equity managers do with their portfolio companies, what returns they earn, who earns more and why, what determines the design of contracts signed between (i)...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462004

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