Why do private firms stay private? Empirical evidence on this issue is sparse, as most private firms in the US do not report their financial results. We investigate why private status matters by taking advantage of a unique dataset of large, leveraged private firms with SEC filings. Unlike a...

Based on 1182 dyads of venture capitalists and German portfolio companies involved ina financing round between 2002 and 2007, we examine the importance of spatialproximity between investors and investees in a dense economy. We find that theprobability of a financing relationship decreases by 8%...

Für die Bestimmung des versicherungstechnischen Risikokapitals ist die Abbildung von Katastrophenschäden von essenzieller Bedeutung. Dabei ist es dringend erforderlich, dass die kapitalentlastende Wirkung nicht-proportionaler Rückversicherung nicht nur für Naturereignisse, sondern auch für...

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...

Beim V. C. (Risikokapital, Wagniskapital) handelt es sich um zeitlich begrenzteKapitalbeteiligungen an jungen, innovativen, nicht börsennotierten Unternehmen, diesich trotz zum Teil unzureichender laufender Ertragskraft durch einüberdurchschnittliches Wachstumspotential auszeichnen. Das...

"Coherent" measures of a bank's whole risk capital imply a structure of a bank's optimalcredit portfolio that is independent of its deposits and the expected deposit rate, of expectedbankruptcy costs and of expected costs of regulatory capital...

Using a hand-collected sample of contracts and investment proposals from German venturecapital financing relationships, we analyze specific incentive conflicts. We apply indirect anddirect measures of these problems and extend the “direct” approach by Kaplan and Strömberg(2004) to a four-...

Using a hand-collected sample of contracts and investment proposals from German venturecapital (VC) financing relationships, we find that experienced and or private law/independentVC firms rely to a lesser degree on debt financing and more on certain covenants in VC con-tracting even when we...

Valuing early-stage high-technology growth-oriented companies is a challenge to current valuation methodologies. Efforts are redirected towards the design of investment contracts which materially skew the distribution of payoffs in favor of the venture investors. In effect, limitations in...