Sökning: "Performance and Private Firms"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 129 uppsatser innehållade orden Performance and Private Firms.
1. Did Private Equity-Backed Firms Outperform Operationally During Covid-19?
C-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiSammanfattning : Do private equity (PE) backed companies perform better operationally in a non-financial crisis? By analyzing PE-backed firms in the UK during Covid-19 using fixed effects difference-in-differences, our findings suggest that private equity-backed companies' performance decreased significantly more at the onset of the crisis and increased their leverage but recovered faster both with greater magnitude and significance. PE-backed companies thus seem to handle an operationally-sided crisis better over time but are more exposed to them initially. LÄS MER
2. Giants at Play: A study on the impact of institutional ownership on firm performance
C-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansieringSammanfattning : This study examines whether changes in the level of institutional ownership impact the market value and operating performance of firms. This is done by testing three different hypotheses based on different institutional ownership characteristics on a sample of 197 Swedish large- and mid-cap listed companies between the years 2016-2021. LÄS MER
3. Macro-based Adjustment Factors for Valuations in Venture Capital
Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenSammanfattning : This paper focuses on creating macro-based adjustment factors which can be applied to the valuation of start-up companies. Since start-up companies are private, market valuations are limited to events such as funding rounds or M&A transactions, which happen only at discrete points in time. LÄS MER
4. Auditor incentives and audit quality : A qualitative study regarding influence of incentives on audit quality based on Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
Magister-uppsats, Umeå universitet/FöretagsekonomiSammanfattning : The primary goal of this study is to identify the influence of auditor incentives in audit quality and how and why it influences the auditor in practice in south Asian countries like Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. This research will be relevant to authorities like audit firms, regulators, practitioners, and academics and it will be helpful to make the standard setup to establish the methods or procedures to offer the incentives which can be matched with the global context. LÄS MER
5. Private Equity: The Secret Sauce for Pandemic-Proof Performance or Just Another Quarantine Regret? How PE-backed companies performed during COVID-19 pandemic compared to non-PE-backed companies
C-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiSammanfattning : This study utilizes a dataset comprising 99 private equity-backed firms and 317 non-private equity-backed firms in Sweden to investigate whether private equity-backed firms were more resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to similar firms using difference-in-differences method. Our findings indicate that private equity-backed firms experienced a significant increase in investment, credit, and equity inflows, and exhibited better operational performance when compared to similar firms in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. LÄS MER