Tail risks and private equity performance

Hrvoje Kurtović and Garen Markarian

Journal of Empirical Finance, 2024, vol. 75, issue C

Abstract: We examine the drivers of private equity in response to the fully exogenous Covid-19 shock, employing listed private equity as a proxy for traditional non-listed private equity. This approach enables us to reliably measure firm characteristics and performance in real-time. Listed private equity firms, on average, underperformed significantly during the crisis, with a performance drop ranging from 9.2 % to 43.6 %, depending on the model used. However, there is substantial cross-sectional variation driven by unique firm-level attributes including access to capital, liquidity, transparency, and ownership structure. Listed private equity with better access to capital and higher transparency shows resilience during the crisis, while higher illiquidity and opacity exacerbate the negative effects. This study offers early evidence on Covid-19′s impact on private equity firms, highlighting value drivers and performance dynamics of this alternative asset class during a period of extreme tail risk.

Keywords: Listed private equity; Private equity performance; Covid-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G12 G23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jempfin.2023.101457

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