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The Returns to Entrepreneurial Investment: A Private Equity Premium Puzzle?Annette Vissing-JorgensenNorthwestern University - Kellogg School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Tobias J. MoskowitzUniversity of Chicago - Booth School of Business April 2002 NBER Working Paper No. w8876 Abstract: We document the return to investing in U.S. nonpublicly traded equity. Entrepreneurial investment is extremely concentrated, yet despite its poor diversification, we find that the returns to private equity are no higher than the returns to public equity. Given the large public equity premium, it is puzzling why households willingly invest substantial amounts in a single privately held firm with a seemingly far worse risk-return tradeoff. We briefly discuss how large nonpecuniary benefits, a preference for skewness, or overestimates of the probability of survival could potentially explain investment in private equity despite these findings.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 54 working papers seriesDate posted: April 4, 2002Suggested CitationContact Information
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