WORKING PAPER SERIESNO 1078 / AUGUST 2009ON THE REAL EFFECTSOF PRIVATE EQUITYINVESTMENTEVIDENCE FROM NEWBUSINESS CREATION 1by Alexander Popov 2and Peter Roosenboom 3In 2009 all ECBpublicationsfeature a motiftaken <strong>from</strong> <strong>the</strong>€200 banknote.This paper can be downloaded without charge <strong>from</strong>http://www.ecb.europa.eu or <strong>from</strong> <strong>the</strong> Social Science Research Networkelectronic library at http://ssrn.com/abstract_id=1436894.1 We thank Marco Da Rin, Philipp Hartmann, Ulrich Hege, Florian Heider, Josh Lerner, Simone Manganelli, Marina Martynova, Eric Nowak,Enrico Perotti, Jose Luis Peydro, Richard Rosen, Per Stromberg, Krishnamurthy Subramanian, and Gregory Udell, as well as seminarparticipants at <strong>the</strong> ECB, <strong>the</strong> 18 th IT&FA conference, <strong>the</strong> 2008 EFA meeting, <strong>the</strong> RICAFE2 third conference, <strong>the</strong> 11 th Symposiumon Finance, Banking and Insurance, <strong>the</strong> 2009 MFA meeting, and <strong>the</strong> Federal Reserve Bank <strong>of</strong> Chicago for valuable comments.A special thanks is extended to Luc Laeven for providing us with <strong>the</strong> Amadeus and D&B data. We also thank Lieven Baertand Kim Bonnema for outstanding research assistance. The opinions expressed herein are those <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> authorsand do not necessarily reflect those <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> European Central Bank or <strong>the</strong> Eurosystem.2 European Central Bank, Financial Research Division, Kaiserstrasse 29, D-60311 Frankfurt am Main, Germany;tel. +4969 1344 8428, email: Alexander.Popov@ecb.europa.eu3 Department <strong>of</strong> Finance, Rotterdam School <strong>of</strong> Management (RSM), Erasmus University Rotterdam,Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, NL 3062PA Rotterdam, The Ne<strong>the</strong>rlands;tel: +3110 408 1255; e-mail: proosenboom@rsm.nl
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