My research focuses on two areas (with a heavy recent emphasis on area #1):

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(1) Private Equity & Venture Capital

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(2) Bank Regulation

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All my research is empirical and, more often than not and particularly in Private Equity and Venture Capital, involves extensive manual data collection from obscure, complex legal or very expensive sources. Although the resulting work is rarely 'mainstream', I believe true knowledge - especially in areas as opaque and inaccessible as Alternative Investments - is oftentimes only created by digging through, compiling and making sense of the raw underlying data no one else is willing to obsess over.

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Over the years and in many a long night, I compiled some data sets (and wrote some papers) to help shed light on a couple of previously unanswered questions on topics such as compensation structures in Private Equity, contracting dynamics in Venture Capital, LBO (under-)performance, or corporate governance and risks in banking.

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While I can't make the actual articles available on this site (journal paywalls...), I am happy to share the data sets in the hopes of facilitating future research on the topics. Even after 30+ years of research, the inner workings of Venture Capital and Private Equity are still not fully understood - and they keep evolving rapidly - so I wanna support my little niche research community in the spirit of knowledge creation in any way I can.

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Purpose of this part of my website is therefore to give an overview of my current and past research, and to link all papers to the respective data sets that can be found in the 'Data' section of the website.