Private Equity Fund Returns and Performance Persistence

Review of Finance

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1783-1823

  Marquez, Robert ^a   Nanda, Vikram ^b   Yavuz, M Deniz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84941641092     PISSN: 15723097     EISSN: 1573692X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rof/rfu045     Document Type: Conference Paper

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