Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the financial structure of large buyouts. We collect detailed information on the financing of 1157 worldwide private equity deals from 1980 to 2008. Buyout leverage is cross-sectionally unrelated to the leverage of matched public firms, and is largely dri...
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| 格式: | Working paper |
| 语言: | English |
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NBER
2010
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