Institutional investors’ exposure to private market funds exceeds 12 trillion US dollars. Despite this and contrary to public markets, little is known about the extent and determinants of ESG transparency in private markets. Using a novel dataset, we investigate ESG disclosures in the...

Extending from Lerner and Schoar's (2004) fund manager's perspective for illiquidity puzzle of the private equity fund, we take the investor's perspective. This paper examines the roles that investment illiquidity, along with bounded rationality of the fund managers and rent-seeking behavior in...