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The Returns to Entrepreneurial Investment: A Private Equity Premium Puzzle? / Tobias J. Moskowitz, Annette Vissing-Jorgensen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moskowitz, Tobias J.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w8876.
- NBER working paper series no. w8876
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- The Returns to Entrepreneurial Investment
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2002.
- Summary:
- We document the return to investing in U.S. nonpublicly traded equity. Entrepreneurial investment is extremely concentrated, yet despite its poor diversification, we find that the returns to private equity are no higher than the returns to public equity. Given the large public equity premium, it is puzzling why households willingly invest substantial amounts in a single privately held firm with a seemingly far worse risk-return tradeoff. We briefly discuss how large nonpecuniary benefits, a preference for skewness, or overestimates of the probability of survival could potentially explain investment in private equity despite these findings.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- April 2002.
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