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Where Private Enterprise Can Help

How private practitioners help to control TB.

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Pan-private Algorithms: When Memory Does Not Help

Consider updates arriving online in which the tth input is (it, dt), where it’s are thought of as IDs of users. Informally, a randomized function f is differentially private with respect to the IDs if the probability distribution induced by f is not much different from that induced by it on an input in which occurrences of an ID j are replaced with some other ID k. Recently, this notion was ext...

The First-Time in Private Equity: Does Experience Help to Raise Capital?

Compared to mature investment firms, first-time funds in private equity lack an investment and performance track record, and require alternative signals to establish initial trust with investors. The paper finds that investors allocate more capital to first-time funds if they have a higher share of managers with relevant experience, such as from another private equity group or a bank. In partic...