This paper offers a quantitative description of European private equity markets and compares the recent development in these markets with the development of the US venture capital market. Moreover, the paper addresses the differences between private equity investors acting in a single national...

Unternehmenskrisen -- Finanzintermediäre und Unternehmensfinanzierung -- Investitionen in Krisenunternehmen -- Empirische Untersuchung von Unternehmensrestrukturierungen -- Determinanten des Erfolgs von Investitionen in Krisenunternehmen -- Schlussbetrachtung.

We distinguish exogenous liquidity, which corresponds to the variability of bid-ask spreads for usual-sized transactions, from endogenous liquidity, which we interpret as the impact of liquidity on market prices when liquidating larger positions. Endogenous liquidity measures the risk that the...