• Coinvestment and risk taking in private equity funds 

      Bienz, Carsten; Thorburn, Karin; Walz, Uwe (2016-01-01)
      Private equity fund managers are typically required to invest their own money alongside the fund. We examine how this coinvestment affects the acquisition strategy of leveraged buyout funds. In a simple model, where the ...
    • Insight Private Equity 

      Gill, Andrej; Visnjic, Nikolai (2013-06-18)
      We are able to shed light on the black box of restructuring tools private equity investors use to improve the operational performance of their portfolio companies. By building on previous work considering performance ...
    • Performance Benefits of Tight Control 

      Gill, Andrej; Visnjic, Nikolai (2013-06-18)
      This study investigates the transition from being a listed company with a dispersed ownership structure to being a privately held company with a concentrated ownership structure. We consider a sample of private equity ...