Berk A. Sensoy

Vanderbilt University - Finance

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Should Investors Bet on the Jockey or the Horse? Evidence from the Evolution of Firms from Early Business Plans to Public Companies

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Should Investors Bet on the Jockey or the Horse? Evidence from the Evolution of Firms from Early Business Plans to Public Companies

CRSP Working Paper No. 603
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 16 Feb 2005
Steven N. Kaplan, Berk A. Sensoy and Per Strömberg
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Vanderbilt University - Finance and Swedish House of Finance
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Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Theory of the firm

What are Firms? Evolution from Early Business Plans to Public Companies

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 14 Apr 2006
Steven N. Kaplan, Berk A. Sensoy and Per Strömberg
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Vanderbilt University - Finance and Swedish House of Finance
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Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Theory of the firm

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Cyclicality, Performance Measurement, and Cash Flow Liquidity in Private Equity

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Cyclicality, Performance Measurement, and Cash Flow Liquidity in Private Equity

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2010-021, Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2010-03-021
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 28 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2015
David T. Robinson and Berk A. Sensoy
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and Vanderbilt University - Finance
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Liquidity, cash flows, business cycles, performance, private equity, venture capital

Cyclicality, Performance Measurement, and Cash Flow Liquidity in Private Equity

NBER Working Paper No. w17428
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 21 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2014
David T. Robinson and Berk A. Sensoy
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and Vanderbilt University - Finance
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Private Equity Performance: A Survey

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Private Equity Performance: A Survey

Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2015-10 , Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2015-03-10
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 08 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 15 Aug 2015
Steven N. Kaplan and Berk A. Sensoy
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Vanderbilt University - Finance
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private equity, performance

Private Equity Performance: A Survey

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 7, pp. 597-614, 2015
Posted: 11 Dec 2015
Steven N. Kaplan and Berk A. Sensoy
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Vanderbilt University - Finance

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Do Private Equity Fund Managers Earn Their Fees? Compensation, Ownership, and Cash Flow Performance

The Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming , AFA 2012 Chicago Meetings Paper, Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2011-14, UCD & CalPERS Sustainability & Finance Symposium 2013, Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2011-03-014
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 22 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2013
David T. Robinson and Berk A. Sensoy
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and Vanderbilt University - Finance
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Private Equity, Cash Flows, Performance, Fees, Carried Interest, Ownership

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Costly External Finance, Corporate Investment, and the Subprime Mortgage Credit Crisis

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, Marshall School of Business Working Paper No. MKT 01-09, Ross School of Business Paper No. 1121
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 18 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2009
Ran Duchin, Oguzhan Ozbas and Berk A. Sensoy
Boston College - Carroll School of Management, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department and Vanderbilt University - Finance
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Corporate Investment, Cash, Corporate Liquidity, Financing Constraints, Crisis

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Club Deals in Leveraged Buyouts

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 05 May 2008 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2009
Micah S. Officer, Oguzhan Ozbas and Berk A. Sensoy
Loyola Marymount University - Department of Finance, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department and Vanderbilt University - Finance
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Performance Evaluation and Self-Designated Benchmark Indexes in the Mutual Fund Industry

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 14 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2008
Berk A. Sensoy
Vanderbilt University - Finance
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Mutual Funds, Performance Evaluation, Flows, Incentives, Benchmarks

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Pay for Performance from Future Fund Flows: The Case of Private Equity

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Citation 58

Pay for Performance from Future Fund Flows: The Case of Private Equity

Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming, Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2010-003, Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2010-3-003
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 20 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2011
Ji-Woong Chung, Berk A. Sensoy, Lea Henny Stern and Michael S. Weisbach
Korea University - Department of Finance, Vanderbilt University - Finance, University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
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Private Equity, Venture Capital, Fundraising, Compensation, Incentives

Pay for Performance from Future Fund Flows: The Case of Private Equity

NBER Working Paper No. w16369
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 Sep 2010
Ji-Woong Chung, Berk A. Sensoy, Lea Henny Stern and Michael S. Weisbach
Korea University - Department of Finance, Vanderbilt University - Finance, University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
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Measuring Institutional Investors’ Skill at Making Private Equity Investments

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Measuring Institutional Investors’ Skill at Making Private Equity Investments

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2016-03-14, Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2016-14
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 21 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 01 May 2018
Daniel Cavagnaro, Berk A. Sensoy, Yingdi Wang and Michael S. Weisbach
California State University, Fullerton, Vanderbilt University - Finance, California State University, Fullerton and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
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Institutional Investors, Private Equity, Investment Skill, Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Measuring Institutional Investors’ Skill from Their Investments in Private Equity

NBER Working Paper No. w22547
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 22 Aug 2016
Daniel Cavagnaro, Berk A. Sensoy, Yingdi Wang and Michael S. Weisbach
California State University, Fullerton, Vanderbilt University - Finance, California State University, Fullerton and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
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How Well Do Venture Capital Databases Reflect Actual Investments?

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 22 Oct 2006
Steven N. Kaplan, Per Strömberg and Berk A. Sensoy
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Swedish House of Finance and Vanderbilt University - Finance
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Citation 91

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venture capital, databases, investments

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The Effects of Stock Lending on Security Prices: An Experiment

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Citation 17

The Effects of Stock Lending on Security Prices: An Experiment

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 09-39, Chicago Booth Initiative on Global Markets Working Paper No. 42, Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2009-03-020, Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2009-20, AFA 2011 Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 22 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2013
Steven N. Kaplan, Tobias J. Moskowitz and Berk A. Sensoy
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Yale University, Yale SOM and Vanderbilt University - Finance
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Short Selling, Securities Lending, Stock Prices

The Effects of Stock Lending on Security Prices: an Experiment

NBER Working Paper No. w16335
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 07 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2013
Steven N. Kaplan, Tobias J. Moskowitz and Berk A. Sensoy
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Yale University, Yale SOM and Vanderbilt University - Finance
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Limited Partner Performance and the Maturing of the Private Equity Industry

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Citation 34

Limited Partner Performance and the Maturing of the Private Equity Industry

Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2013-01, Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2013-03-01
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 05 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2013
Berk A. Sensoy, Yingdi Wang and Michael S. Weisbach
Vanderbilt University - Finance, California State University, Fullerton and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
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private equity performance, institutional investors

Limited Partner Performance and the Maturing of the Private Equity Industry

NBER Working Paper No. w18793
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 09 Feb 2013
Berk A. Sensoy, Yingdi Wang and Michael S. Weisbach
Vanderbilt University - Finance, California State University, Fullerton and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
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Investor Abilities and Financial Contracting: Evidence from Venture Capital

Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2009-03-022, Dice Center Working Paper No. 2009-22, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 21 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2014
Ola Bengtsson and Berk A. Sensoy
Lund University School of Economics and Management and Vanderbilt University - Finance
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Venture capital, Financial Contracting, Entrepreneur, Agency

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Changing the Nexus: The Evolution and Renegotiation of Venture Capital Contracts

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Forthcoming, Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2009-03-019, Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2009-19
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 21 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2015
Ola Bengtsson and Berk A. Sensoy
Lund University School of Economics and Management and Vanderbilt University - Finance
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Venture capital, financial contracting, renegotiation, debt overhang

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How Much for a Haircut? Illiquidity, Secondary Markets, and the Value of Private Equity

Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management Research Paper No. 2608549, Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2015-08, Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2015-03-08
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 22 May 2015 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2016
Nicolas P. B. Bollen and Berk A. Sensoy
Vanderbilt University - Finance and Vanderbilt University - Finance
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private equity, performance, secondary market, liquidity, value, risk

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Indirect Incentives of Hedge Fund Managers

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Indirect Incentives of Hedge Fund Managers

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper Series No. 2013-06, Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2013-03-06
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 16 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2016
Jongha Lim, Berk A. Sensoy and Michael S. Weisbach
California State University, Fullerton - Department of Finance, Vanderbilt University - Finance and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
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Hedge Funds, Incentives, Performance, Flows

Indirect Incentives of Hedge Fund Managers

NBER Working Paper No. w18903
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 22 Mar 2013
Jongha Lim, Berk A. Sensoy and Michael S. Weisbach
California State University, Fullerton - Department of Finance, Vanderbilt University - Finance and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
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The Liquidity Cost of Private Equity Investments: Evidence from Secondary Market Transactions

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The Liquidity Cost of Private Equity Investments: Evidence from Secondary Market Transactions

Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2016-03-011, Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2016-11
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 02 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2017
Taylor Nadauld, Berk A. Sensoy, Keith Vorkink and Michael S. Weisbach
Brigham Young University, Vanderbilt University - Finance, Brigham Young University - J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott School of Management and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
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Private Equity, Secondary Market for Private Equity Funds, Liquidity, Transactions Costs

The Liquidity Cost of Private Equity Investments: Evidence from Secondary Market Transactions

NBER Working Paper No. w22404
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 11 Jul 2016
Taylor Nadauld, Berk A. Sensoy, Keith Vorkink and Michael S. Weisbach
Brigham Young University, Vanderbilt University - Finance, Brigham Young University - J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott School of Management and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
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Diversifying Private Equity

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 18 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2021
Oleg Gredil, Yan Liu and Berk A. Sensoy
Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business, Purdue University and Vanderbilt University - Finance
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Private Equity, Venture Capital, Fund of Funds, Fund Performance, Portfolio Choice

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What are Firms? Evolution from Birth to Public Companies

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What are Firms? Evolution from Birth to Public Companies

NBER Working Paper No. w11581
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 19 Oct 2005 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2014
Steven N. Kaplan, Berk A. Sensoy and Per Strömberg
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Vanderbilt University - Finance and Swedish House of Finance
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What are Firms? Evolution from Birth to Public Companies

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5224
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 24 Oct 2005
Steven N. Kaplan, Per Strömberg and Berk A. Sensoy
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Swedish House of Finance and Vanderbilt University - Finance
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Entrepreneurship, theory of the firm, venture capital

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Do Private Equity Managers Earn Their Fees? Compensation, Ownership, and Cash Flow Performance

NBER Working Paper No. w17942
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 31 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2014
David T. Robinson and Berk A. Sensoy
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and Vanderbilt University - Finance
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Do Mutual Funds Time Their Benchmarks?

Posted: 14 Mar 2006
Steven N. Kaplan and Berk A. Sensoy
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Vanderbilt University - Finance

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Mutual Funds, Market Timing, Benchmarks, Cash