The high competition in the global Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital (VC) industry has forced investors to allocate more capital to emerging markets. The fast growing PE and VC activities in those countries raise the question of whether the cost with limited attention will surpass the...

The high competition in the global Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital (VC) industry has forced investors to allocate more capital to emerging markets. The fast growing PE and VC activities in those countries raise the question of whether the cost with limited attention will surpass the...

We study private equity in a dynamic general equilibrium model and ask two questions: (i) Why does the investment of venture funds respond more strongly to the business cycle than that of buyout funds? (ii) Why are venture funds returns higher than those of buyout? On (i), venture brings in new...

In this book chapter for a practitioner audience, I present international PE activity data dating back to 2000, grouped into several “traditional” and “emerging” regions. There is no clear global development pattern for the PE market. After the historic high in 2000, activity peaked...

Does venture capital (VC) investment yield economic growth? A large literature studies the effect of VC investments on firm-level activity, but its effects on economic growth are less well understood. We identify the effect of VC investment flows on destination county employment, wages, and...