We study transfers of ownership rights, completed between 1996 and 2004, in five major European countries. We use the traditional literature on corporate governance systems to identify expected groups of countries. Results from the supervised cluster analysis show significant dissimilarities...

Using a unique dataset of private equity firms (PEFs), this paper analyses the investment behaviour of private equity fund managers. This paper uses a multi-country sample of PEFs to compare the approaches to investee valuation, contractual agreements and financial tools in Europe. Univariate...

[eng] Mutual and commercial banks financing small and medium-sized enterprises . This article deals with different factors which set apart bankers working in mutual banks from bankers working in commercial banks in the specific activity of financing small - and medium-sized enterprises. This...