The Private Equity Boom: Causes and Policy Issues

Adrian Blundell-Wignall

Financial Market Trends, 2007, vol. 2007, issue 1, 59-86

Abstract: Private equity, by focusing on under-performing companies that can be transformed and subsequently re-floated, fosters rapid corporate restructuring – enhancing productivity. M&A and private equity deals are very strong at present, and private equity use of leverage is accelerating sharply...

Date: 2007
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