The effects of private equity buyouts on employment, productivity, and job reallocation vary tremendously with macroeconomic and credit conditions, across private equity groups, and by type of buyout. We reach this conclusion by examining the most extensive database of U.S. buyouts ever...

Past performance is considered one of the most salient, reliable indicators of future performance. For this reason, when considering making investments, investors typically focus on opportunities that have, on average, shown high net returns in the past. In many markets where there is extreme...

Little is known about the relationship between family firms and their employees. This paper aims to close this gap. We distinguish between family management and family ownership as two dimensions of family firms and analyze their respective influence on downsizing. Our findings show that family...