Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity
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Steven N. Kaplan is Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Chicago, Illinois. Per Strömberg is Professor of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics and Director of the Swedish Institute of Financial Research (SIFR), both in Stockholm, Sweden. Both authors are also Research Associates, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their e-mail addresses are and .
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تاریخ انتشار 2008