Private equity at work : when Wall Street manages Main Street / Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Appelbaum, Eileen, 1940-

Contributor:

Batt, Rosemary L.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Private equity--United States.

Private equity.

Business enterprises--United States--Finance.

Business enterprises.

Industrial management--United States.

Industrial management.

Finance.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 381 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2014]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Private equity firms have long been at the center of public debates on the impact of the financial sector on Main Street companies. Are these firms financial innovators that save failing businesses or financial predators that bankrupt otherwise healthy companies and destroy jobs? The first comprehensive examination of this topic, Private Equity at Work provides a detailed yet accessible guide to this controversial business model. Book jacket.

Contents:

Private equity: investors as managers

Institutional change and the emergence of private equity

The business model: how private equity makes money

The effects of the financial crisis, 2008 to 2012

The middle market, increasing focus after the crisis

How well do private equity funds perform?

Private equity's effects on jobs and labor

Dilemmas for pension funds as limited partners

Regulating private equity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-363) and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781610448185

1610448189

Publisher Number:

99976954637

40023929886

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.