Selling Innovation in Bankruptcy

Innovation is crucial for the modern economy. Financing innovation is an important but challenging task for innovative firms as innovation is associated with high degree of uncertainty. In addition, the high-risk nature of innovation makes failure highly likely and thus the bankruptcy process particularly relevant to firms’ financing policy. Ideally,…

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Why You Should Consider a “Permanent Capital” Investment Strategy

Much of the capital available to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) around the world is in the form of private equity. Most of this capital is allocated via Private Equity (PE) firms that are generally structured with 10-year terms, and the investment target is 3x to 5x return in 3…

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Decreasing Returns or Reversion to the Mean? The Case of Private Equity Fund Growth

This article analyzes the interaction between the growth and the performance of the two most prominent groups of private equity (PE) funds: buyout funds and venture capital (VC) funds.

These funds are usually structured as closed-end, limited-life vehicles. Therefore, in order to keep earning fees, PE firms periodically attempt to…

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