Growth equity (GE) funds have emerged as the third major private equity asset class for investors, alongside venture capital (VC) and buyout (B/O) funds, and as an important new source of external equity capital for private companies and entrepreneurs wishing to fund growth without surrendering...

The abnormal decline in the number of US public firms is often blamed on merger activity, private equity investments, and stock market regulations. We compare and quantify the effects of these channels on the evolution of the US listing gap in a unified framework. In the US, an extra 100 mergers...

The abnormal decline in the number of US public firms is often blamed on merger activity, private equity investments, and stock market regulations. We compare the effects of these channels in a unified framework. In the US, an extra 100 mergers is associated with 41.56 additional missing public...

The abnormal decline in the number of US public firms is often blamed on mergers, private equity, and stock market regulations. We compare and quantify the effects of these channels in a unified framework. In the US, an extra 100 mergers is associated with 22.01 additional missing public firms,...

Section 1 presents tests for the hypothesis that shifts in technology and industry composition might have played a key role in causing the U.S. listing gap. We replicate our core analysis at the industry level and find no evidence that the dynamics of the number of listing is driven by industry...

The scope of privatization -- Why do countries privatize? -- How do countries privatize? -- Empirical evidence on privatization's effectiveness in non-transition economies -- Empirical evidence on privatization in transition economies -- The structure and investment performance of privatization...