The Illiquidity Puzzle: Theory and Evidence from Private Equity

This paper presents a theory of liquidity where we explicitly model the liquidity of the security as a choice variable, which enables the manager raising the funds to screen for "deep pocket" investors, i.e. these that have a...

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Main Authors: Lerner, Joshua, Schoar, Antoinette
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: 2003
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1803