Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

1. The Economics of Private Equity: Designing and Structuring the Management Company -- 2. Who are Private Equity Targets? -- 3. Survey on Private Equity Investment Targeting in Italy -- 4. A Private Equity Deal: the Case of Invisible Ink -- 5. Conclusions.

Economics of private equity (PE). Empirical evidence on Italian manufacturing firms resorting to internal equity only to finance investments with positive NPV. Normative framework providing guidelines on how their entrepreneurial model (governance, gearing, growth) would be favourably influenced by conventional PE actions. Policy recommendations on how to expedite PE ownership expansion in Italy and other European countries.