Despite the common view that there is inherently a relationship of confliction, it is now impossibleto imagine the financing of family-owned enterprises in Germany without the alternativemethod of Private Equity financing. Based on a survey on Private Equity in familyowned companies specialising...

Since summer 2007 the Subprime credit crisis has been affecting the international financialmarkets. One of the consequences of the crisis was the collapse of the market for large-sizedleveraged buyout transactions in late 2007 and early 2008.The goal of this Working Paper is to examine to what...

Private equity has seen an impressive activity surge in Germany over the last ten years. Thisworking paper meets the increasing thirst for information on the German buyout market withan overview of its historic development, a quantitative analysis of its performance and a futureoutlook. While...

Die vorliegende Broschüre gibt Einblick in Konzepte, Methoden und spezifische Erfahrungen der Autoren im Kontext derBeurteilung des Einflusses von IT und IT-Projekten auf M&A-Transaktionen.

This paper is the first systematic analysis of the impact of diversificationon the performance of private equity funds. A unique data set allows theexact evaluation of diversification across the dimensions financing stages,industries, and countries. Very different levels of diversification can...

...After imposing liquidity constraints, and after correcting for non-surviving vehicles, we get a sample of 114 instruments. The risk and return characteristics of three portfolio strategies, two partially rebalanced and one fully rebalanced, are compared.

Private Equity und Hedge Fonds nach englischem und amerikanischem Modelldrängen immer mehr auf die deutschen Finanzmärkte...

In this paper we investigate the risk return relationship of Private Equity (PE) relative to Public Market Equity (PM) investments to assess the adequateness of PEs return premium. We analyze cash flows of PE projects gross of fees and any other externalities. Our analysis is based on simulated...

In this paper we show how cross-sectional correlations between Private Equity (PE) and Public Market Equity (PM) returns can be approximated, resolving the lack of time series PE data. Based on a sample comprising 2,380 realized PE projects, we observe low crosssectional correlations between PE...

Auch wenn sich die Wogen in den letzten Wochen wieder geglättet haben, klingt man-chem noch das Wort von den Heuschrecken im Ohr, mit dem der ganze Private-Equity-Geschäftsbereich von Kreditinstituten Gefahr lief, in Verruf gebracht zu werden. UnterPrivate-Equity-Geschäften versteht man alle...