The bright and dark side of staging: Investment performance and the varying motivations of private equity firms

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1597-1609

  Krohmer, Philipp ^a   Lauterbach, Rainer ^a   Calanog, Victor ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Investment decisions; Liquidation; Private equity; Staging

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349190936     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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