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Changes in the German Urban System—A Financial-Sector Perspective

open access: yesRaumforschung und Raumordnung, 2011
Urban systems analysis and especially the seminal contributions of the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) so far mainly rely on the analysis of national and international office geographies of advanced producer services firms.
Britta Klagge, Carsten Peter
doaj   +1 more source

Private equity, productivity and earnings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
A detailed study in the USA shows that workers experience a relative fall in earnings after a takeover by private equity. Also, companies bought by private equity are at great risk of defaulting on their debts in the next 2 ...
Hall, David
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The Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Workforce in Early Childhood Education: Findings From a National Survey of Australian Centre‐Based Services

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Culturally responsive early childhood education (ECE) environments can increase child and family participation, enhance service quality, and improve developmental outcomes for children. Educators from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds contribute to inclusive ECE and are crucial for addressing workforce shortages.
Sene Gide   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of sources of return in South African private equity

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Business Management, 2009
Private Equity is rapidly growing as an asset class for investors in South Africa. Local and international literature presents overwhelming evidence to suggest that Private Equity offers superior risk-adjusted returns and portfolio diversification ...
J. R. Van Niekerk, J. D. Krige
doaj   +1 more source

Private Equity, Investment and Financial Constraints – Firm-Level Evidence for France and the United Kingdom [PDF]

open access: yes
The welfare effects of private equity transactions are debated controversially. We analyze the impact of expansion financing and buyouts by private equity investors on investment of portfolio firms in the UK and France – two countries with different ...
Dirk Engel, Joel Stiebale
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Private Equity Investment in the BRICs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This Article investigates the legal and economic environment for private equity investments in Brazil, Russia, India and China (“BRIC”). In contrast with disappointing returns in the 1990s, private equity investment has soared in developing countries ...
Andreas Woeller
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Comparative Analysis of Private Equity Market in Poland and Other Central and Eastern European Countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The main goal of this article is an analysis of the development stage attained by the private equity market in Poland and its comparison with similar markets in other countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
Sosnowski, Tomasz
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Private Equity and COVID-19

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
We survey more than 200 private equity (PE) managers from firms with $1.9 trillion of assets under management (AUM) about their portfolio performance, decision-making and activities during the Covid-19 pandemic. Given that PE managers have significant incentives to maximize value, their actions during the pandemic should indicate what they perceive as ...
Gompers, Paul A.   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

The cash flow, return and risk characteristics of private equity [PDF]

open access: yes
Using a unique dataset of private equity funds over the last two decades, this paper analyzes the cash flow, return, and risk characteristics of private equity.
Alexander Ljungqvist, Matthew Richardson
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