Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity

Private Equity and Industry Performance

The growth of the private equity industry has spurred concerns about its impact on the economy. This analysis looks across nations and industries to assess the impact of private equity on industry performance. We find that industries where private equity funds invest grow more quickly in terms of total production and employment, and appear less exposed to aggregate shocks. We perform a number o...

Investing in Private Equity

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...

Can private equity deliver on equity?

a Save the Children UK, 1 St John’s Lane, London, EC1M 4AR, England. Correspondence to Giorgio Cometto (e-mail: [email protected]). In June 2009, a new Health in Africa Fund was launched by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the branch of The World Bank group mandated with supporting and expanding the private for-profit sector. This Fund will be managed by Aureos Capital, a p...

Valuing private equity∗

To understand the pricing and performance of private equity (PE), we analyze the incomplete-markets portfolio choice problem facing a risk-averse limited partner (LP) investing in liquid stocks and bonds along with an illiquid PE investment. A general partner (GP) manages the PE asset and generates alpha on it and charges management and performance fees via carried interest in return. Our compl...