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Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity dated June 2008 by a Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, University of Chicago
Graduate School of Business, Chicago, Illinois and Professor of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics and Director of the Swedish Institute of Financial Research (SIFR), both in Stockholm, Sweden. Both authors are also Research Associates, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The working paper describes and presents time series evidence on the leveraged buyout / private equity industry, both firms and transactions. It discusses the existing empirical evidence on the economics of the firms and transactions. The working paper considers similarities and differences between the recent private equity wave and the wave of the 1980s. Finally, it speculates on what the evidence implies for the future of private equity.

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