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2011 Coller Prize Runner-up: A Case Study on an Alliance of a Corporate with a Private Equity Fund

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Runner-up in the 2011 Coller Prize (Masters Category). Note that the paper is not currently available due to confidentiality.

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2011 Coller Prize Winner Presentation - Do Equity Markets Affect Innovation - Evidence from Initial Public Offerings

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2011 Coller Prize Winner - PhD Category

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2011 Coller Prize Runner-up Presentation - Manager Networks and Success of Venture Capital Syndications

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2011 Coller Prize Runner-up - PhD Category

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2011 Coller Prize Winner - SunRay Renewable Energy - Private Equity in the Sunshine

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2011 Coller Prize Winner - Masters Category

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Team Stability and Performance in Private Equity

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A joint Coller Institute / Capital Dynamics research paper, this study looks at the relationship between team stability and performance in private equity.

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2011 Coller Prize Runner-up - Manager Networks and Success of Venture Capital Syndications

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The author analyzes the role of personal relationships in facilitating and adding value to inter-firm economic ties. The paper specically focuses on how manager educational ties can reduce search and ...

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2011 Coller Prize Winner - Do Equity Markets Affect Innovation - Evidence from Initial Public Offerings

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This paper examines how the transition to public equity markets a¤ects the scale and novelty of corporate innovation, measured by patent-based metrics. This paper won the 2011 Coller PhD Prize.

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2011 Private Equity Findings Symposium Academic Presentation - Sreedhar Bharath, Arizona State University

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Presentation of the paper "Does Capital Market Myopia Affect Plant Productivity? Evidence from Going Private Transactions" at the 2011 Private Equity Findings Symposium.

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2011 Private Equity Findings Symposium Academic Presentation - Florin Vasvari, London Business School

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Presentation of the paper "Liquidity in the Secondaries Private Equity Market" by Florin Vasvari at the 2011 Private Equity Findings Symposium.

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2011 Private Equity Findings Symposium Academic Presentation - Joshua Rauh, Northwestern University

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Presentation of the paper "Local Overweighting and Underperformance: Evidence from Limited Partner Private Equity Investments" by Joshua Rauh at the 2011 Private Equity Findings Symposium.

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International Private Equity: A Case Study Textbook

by Talmor E, Vasvari F

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GLOBAL PRIVATE EQUITY REPORT 2011

by Bain & Co

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Private Equity and Venture Capital in the Wake of the Crisis

by Lerner J

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Performance Persistence in Private Equity Funds

by Chung J-W

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The PE Performance Puzzle

by Higson C

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Featured Papers

GLOBAL PRIVATE EQUITY REPORT 2011

GLOBAL PRIVATE EQUITY REPORT 2011

This report provides an excellent review of the past year (2010) and where the focus will be in 2011 for both GPs and LPs. It also makes several references to academic studies highlighting the impac...

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Catalysing Systemic Change: The Role of Venture Philanthropy

Catalysing Systemic Change: The Role of Venture Philanthropy

Undertaken on behalf of Impetus Trust, this paper looks into the role venture philanthropy can play in catalysing systemic change in relation to pressing social issues such as reducing reoffending rat...

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How Regulators Could Help Private Equity

How Regulators Could Help Private Equity

This paper does not advocate more regulation but better regulation; where prevention of systemmic risk and the promotion of market efficiency have equal focus. The authors suggest regulations propose...

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Your Former Employees Matter: Private Equity Firms and Their Financial Advisors

Coller Prize Presentation - Your Former Employees Matter: Private Equity Firms and Their Financial Advisors

By using a unique data set, Linus Siming studies how social networks formed by former employment relationships affect private equity firms’ choice of financial adviser. This paper provides new evi...

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Performance Persistence in Private Equity Funds

Performance Persistence in Private Equity Funds

Winner of Coller Prize PhD category in 2010.

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Blurring Firm Boundaries: The Role of Venture Capital in Strategic Alliances

Blurring Firm Boundaries: The Role of Venture Capital in Strategic Alliances

This study documents a new value-added service provided by venture capitalists and addresses important questions about how resources are combined to create firms. As part of the nexus of contracts s...

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Financial reporting and conflicting managerial incentives: The case of management buyouts

Financial reporting and conflicting managerial incentives: The case of management buyouts

We analyze the effect of external financing concerns on managers’ financial reporting behavior prior to management buyouts (MBOs). Prior studies hypothesize that managers intending to undertake an M...

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Risk and Return Characteristics of Entrepreneurial Companies

Valuations of entrepreneurial companies are only observed occasionally, albeit more frequently for well-performing companies. Consequently, estimators of risk and return must correct for sample sele...

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An Unfair Advantage: Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing

Unstable Equity: Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing

We explore the phenomenon and economics of private equity investments by bank-affiliated groups.

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