What drives private equity returns? - Fund inflows, skilled GPs, and/or risk?

European Financial Management

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 643-675

  Diller, Christian ^a   Kaserer, Christoph ^b  

^a Capital Dynamics ^*  (Argentina)

^b TUM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Buyout; IRR; Money chasing deals phenomenon; Performance measurement; PME; Private equity funds; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 66249123623     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.2007.00438.x     Document Type: Article

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