Are Private Equity Investors Boon or Bane for an Economy?-A Theoretical Analysis

European Financial Management

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 180-207

  Ernst, Sebastian ^a   Koziol, Christian ^b   Schweizer, Denis ^a  

^a WHU OTTO BEISHEIM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Investment strategy; Leveraged buyout (LBO); Private equity; Takeover competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873840569     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.2012.00586.x     Document Type: Article

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