This paper studies the influence of the private benefits of control on the capital structure and the growth of private companies. It is argued that companies in which existing owners would lose more control if they expanded, have smaller equity increases, are more highly levered and grow more slowly. The dataset covers 8,964 private UK companies with limited liability for up to 5 years. Potenti...

This paper studies the influence of the private benefits of control on the capital structure and the growth of private companies. It is argued that companies in which existing owners would lose more control if they expanded, issue less new equity, use more debt and grow more slowly. The dataset covers 6834 private UK companies with limited liability for up to 5 years. Loss of control is measure...

approach to ranking private companies based on predictive indicators. AI Communications. Private equity investors seek to rank potential investment opportunities in growth stage private companies within an industry sector. The sparsity of historical investment transaction data for many growth stage private companies may present a major obstacle to using statistical methods to discern industry s...

Article is devoted to the problems of development private military companies in Russia. It shows practice current political situation world. The phenomenon (PMCs) a rather controversial and ambiguous topic. Over past more than thirty years, PMCs have played an increasingly important role local wars regional conflicts. With further globalization world economy, future armed conflicts will be incr...