-buyout companies. Our paper suggests that private equity investors select companies which are less financially distressed than … experienced private equity funds, their bankruptcy rates are even lower. Experienced investors seem to be better able to manage …

European investors view their local counterparts in the portfolio companies? home countries. If they regard them as rivals … using a unique cross-border country dataset on international investments of European private equity investors. We find that … European investors predominantly invest in countries with more mature private equity industries. The presence of local private …

-buyout companies. Our results suggest that private equity investors select companies which are less financially distressed than … experienced private equity funds, their bankruptcy rates are even lower. These findings indicate that experienced investors are …

ven- ture capitalists typically are bridge investors rather than true venture capitalists. Our findings may be interesting …