Private Equity Investments Drivers and Performance Implications of Investment Cycles /

• Main Author: Sommer, Claudia (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer Gabler, 2013.
• Series: Schriften zum europäischen Management
• Subjects: Finance.; Finance, general.

Private equity experienced dramatic fluctuations in investment activity in line with the turbulences of financial markets in recent years. Claudia Sommer develops a theoretical framework of factors driving private equity investment activity and the resulting performance implications. Using a data se...

Table of Contents:

• Review of economic and business literature on private equity in Europe
• Development of a theoretical framework on private equity investment cycles
• Analysis of factors driving private equity investment activity on aggregate and industry level
• Analysis of the performance implications of investment cycles
• Practical implications, summary and conclusion.