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

Publisher's description: Offers a new, original analysis of how private equity firms are affecting jobs and the sustainability of companies in a slow economic recovery. Also draws on extensive research to explain how the private equity business model creates incentives for excessive use of debt...

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Main Author: Appelbaum, Eileen, 1940-
Corporate Author: Russell Sage Foundation
Other Authors: Batt, Rosemary L.
Other title:When Wall Street manages Main Street.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2014]
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Table of 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.