Performance differentiation: Cutting losses and maximizing profits of private equity and venture capital investments

Financial Markets and Portfolio Management

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 45-67

  Lauterbach, Rainer ^a   Welpe, Isabell M ^b   Fertig, Jan ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Losses; Performance; Private equity; Profit; Return; Risk; Staging; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846959514     PISSN: 15554961     EISSN: 1555497X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11408-006-0039-x     Document Type: Article

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