Are foreign private equity buyouts bad for workers?
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Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity
Steven N. Kaplan is Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Chicago, Illinois. Per Strömberg is Professor of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics and Director of the Swedish Institute of Financial Research (SIFR), both in Stockholm, Sweden. Both authors are also Research Associates, National Bureau of Economic Researc...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Economics Letters
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0165-1765
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2018.08.002