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Corporate governance and pension fund performance
Kowalewski, Oskar - In: Contemporary economics 6 (2012) 1, pp. 14-44
This study provides new evidence on the impact of governance on the performance of privately defined contribution … factors are found to be important for pension fund return on invested assets and also for its economic performance … account the different interests of the beneficiaries and owners as it may determine their performance. …
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A kockázati- és magántőke forrásai. Az intézményi befektetők szerepe a kockázati- és magántőke-ágazat forrásellátásában
Karsai, Judit - 2010
Due to the 2008 global financial crisis the position of the private equity sector has weakened. The number and the value of new transactions have dropped together with the volume of the raised funds. Credit shares have also decreased in the financing of the transactions. Exiting from the...
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Limited partner performance and the maturing of the private equity industry
Sensoy, Berk A.; Wang, Yingdi; Weisbach, Michael S. - 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 …
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Kettős állami szerep a kockázatitőke-ágazatban
Karsai, Judit - 2013
A double nature characterizes the behavior of the government in the venture capital market: a fear of systemic risk and the desire to stimulate companies with growth potential. It seems that the fear might be a bit excessive, disproportionately restricting the effects of venture capital in the...
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Performance benefits of tight control
Gill, Andrej; Visnjic, Nikolai - 2013
companies to evaluate the consequences of the corporate governance changes on operational performance. Our analysis shows … significant positive abnormal growth in several performance ratios for the private period of our sample companies relative to … comparable public companies. These performance differences come from the increase in ownership concentration after the leveraged …
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As American as Apple Inc. : international tax and ownership nationality
Sanchirico, Chris William - 2014
The ownership nationality of large US multinational companies plays an implicit but important role in the current debate over how such companies should be taxed. This paper identifies that role and investigates what is actually known about where these companies’ shareholders reside
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The Attractiveness of 66 Countries for Institutional Real Estate Investments : A Composite Index Approach
Lieser, Karsten - 2011
We address the attractiveness of 66 countries worldwide for institutional real estate investments through the construction of a composite index. For the index's composition, we refer to the results of prior research on the parameters determining real estate investment activity on an aggregated...
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Institutional Investment in Listed Private Equity
Cumming, Douglas J. - 2010
This paper examines institutional investors' propensity to invest in a relatively unknown asset class of listed private equity. Based on data provided by LPEQ, Preqin and Scorpio Partnership covering 171 institutional investors in Europe in 2008-2010, we find allocations are primarily a function...
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The Attractiveness of 66 Countries for Institutional Real Estate Investments : A Composite Index Approach
Lieser, Karsten - 2010
We address the attractiveness of 66 countries around the world for institutional real estate investments by constructing a composite index. For the index composition, we refer to the results of prior research on the parameters determining real estate investment activity on an aggregated country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137046
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The Attractiveness of 66 Countries for Institutional Real Estate Investments
Lieser, Karsten - 2011
This paper uses a composite index to examine the attractiveness of 66 countries worldwide for institutional real estate investments. The index construction is based on the parameters found in prior research that determine real estate investment activity on an aggregated country level. The index...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117424