Die steigende Anzahl von Unternehmenskooperationen ist mit einer Zunahme ihrer Ausgestaltungsvarianten verbunden. Für das Kooperationsmanagement sind damit zahlreiche Herausforderungen verbunden, um die adäquate Institutionalisierung auszuwählen. Nach wie vor fehlen viele geeignete...

This paper analyzes the determinants of returns generated by European private equity funds. It starts from the presumption that this asset class is characterized by illiquidity, stickiness and segmentation. As a consequence, Gompers and Lerner (2000) have shown that venture deal valuations are...

This paper presents a cash flow based analysis of the return and risk characteristics of European Private Equity Funds. For that purpose a comprehensive data set has been provided by Thomson Venture Economics. We document the typical time pattern of cash flows for European private equity funds....