Category: Corporate Governance
01/03/09
02:02:57 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com, 131 words 
Categories: Performance Measurement, Corporate Governance, Market Characteristics
Masulis, Ronald W. and Thomas, Randall S.,Does Private Equity Create Wealth? The Effects of Private Equity and Derivatives on Corporate Governance(September 29, 2008). Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 08-20; ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 11… more »
12/24/08
01:09:27 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com 
, 77 words
Categories: Investment Strategy, Performance Measurement, Corporate Governance, Market Characteristics
TheMcKinseyQuarterly: The voice of experience: Public versus private equity
"When asked to compare the overall effectiveness of PE and public boards, 15 of the 20 respondents said that PE boards clearly added more value; none said that their public… more »
12/03/08
07:12:49 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 569 words
Categories: Various Market Info, Corporate Governance, Market Characteristics
In a letter to the members of the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA), Chairman Russell tries to differentiate private equity from hedge funds. Such efforts should have been undertaken a bit more early...
Brussels, 3 December 2008
Update on… more »
11/02/08
05:41:44 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 219 words
Categories: Performance Measurement, Corporate Governance, Market Characteristics
Corporate Governance and Value Creation: Evidence from Private Equity by Viral V. Acharya and Conor Kehoe, London Business School, May 2008
Paper abstract:
"We examine deal-level data on private equity transactions in the UK initiated during the pe… more »
10/17/08
04:38:36 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com, 197 words
Categories: Performance Measurement, Corporate Governance, Entrepreneurship/Leadership/Innovation, Market Characteristics
The Internal Governance of Firms1
Viral V. Acharya Stewart Myers Raghuram Rajan, LBS, NYU and CEPR MIT and NBER GSB Chicago and NBER, Sept. 2008
"Indeed, going private transactions may be viewed as ones which take place when external governance is… more »
08/10/08
08:51:43 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 182 words
Categories: Investment Strategy, Corporate Governance, Entrepreneurship/Leadership/Innovation
Achleitner, Ann-Kristin, Schraml, Stephanie and Tappeiner, Florian,Private Equity in Familienunternehmen (Erfahrungen mit Minderheitsbeteiligungen)(April 7, 2008).
Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=11179032008
Paper abstract:
"The paper… more »
06/24/08
07:41:13 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 216 words
Categories: Deals, Investment Strategy, Corporate Governance, Market Characteristics
Private Equity Entities and Conglomerates: What are the Differences?, Ann-Kristin Achleitner, Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies, Technische Universität München, TUM Business School, Kay Mueller, Munich University of Technology - Center for… more »
05/02/08
07:54:16 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 361 words
Categories: Investment Strategy, Corporate Governance, Market Characteristics
DIW Berlin: Die Bedeutung von Buy-Outs/Ins für unternehmerische Effizienz, Effektivität und Corporate Governance,
Studie von Dorothea Schäfer und Alexander Fisher im Auftrag des Bundesverbands der deutschen Kapitalbeteiligungsgesellschaft(BVK), Berlin,… more »
04/19/08
Code of Conducts should be established not only as a reaction to crisis situations but in boom times
In the course of the latest financial crisis companies and institutions started to establish various Code of Governance. The latest major initiative has been started by banks which try to avoid that the regulator will set the framework for their future a… more »
03/12/08
06:57:22 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com, 193 words
Categories: Investment Strategy, Corporate Governance
Michael H. Grote
Private Equity im Mittelstand – Mythos und Realität, Michael H. Grote, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Nov. 2007
Private Equity is often subject to misunderstandings in the public perception. M. H. Grote from Johann Wo… more »
12/27/07
We have posted many entries about corporate governance in public and private corporations. Several times we pointed out that public corporations as well as family owned firms could learn a lot from professional private equity players regarding firm gover… more »
09/13/07
Hedge Fund Positioning Paper of the Swiss Federal Banking Commission, September 2007 more »
08/15/07
04:33:42 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 150 words
Categories: Corporate Governance, Market Characteristics
"The Economic Case for Private Equity", M.C.Jensen, Harvard Business School, The Monitor Company, SSEP, February 13, 2007
In a Private Equity conference at HBS this year Prof. M. Jensen pointed out that private equity is "best thought of as a new and… more »
07/28/07
Recent public debates have often be critical towards private equity and hedge funds. These debates distracted from the fact that active equity investors can play an important role in not perfect capital markets. In a recent study about the implications o… more »
07/22/07
The British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA) formed a working group under the Chairmanship of Sir David Walker to examine ways in which levels of disclosure in companies backed by the UK private equity industry could be improved. The… more »
06/21/07
There has been a European wide debate about more regulation of he private equity industry.
After having published on 6 November 2006 a discussion paper about its "regulatory engagement" in private equity the British Regulator FSA now decided in June… more »
03/11/07
Code of Conduct for Disclosure (New York Times)
European private equity firms are worrying about their reputation. We have seen in earlier posts that private equity firms are under criticism for their rather aggressive behavior and were called 'locust… more »
03/02/07
We have seen a wave of public and private companies which implemented or tried to implement coherent corporate governance rules and code of conducts. This wave has definitely been initiated by the major corporate scandals in the public sector. Best pract… more »
02/04/07
Management ownership is a key issue in private equity transactions. Attached paper explores the impact of management characteristics and managerial ownership on a firm’s innovation performance. The researchers from Cambridge and Oxford universties find s… more »
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