The size of venture capital and private equity fund portfolios

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 564-590

  Bernile, Gennaro ^a   Cumming, Douglas ^b   Lyandres, Evgeny ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fund portfolio; G24; Private equity; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548098698     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2007.04.004     Document Type: Article

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