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On April 24th, Barbara Scheck presented the joint research on "Reporting in Social Entrepreneurship" at the Asia Centre for Social Entrepreneurship & Philanthropy, NUS Business School's 2017 International Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship. The presented project originated from a coopaeration…

We are happy to announce that the joint research project of Prof. Ann-Kristin Achleitner (TU München, CEFS), Prof. André Betzer (University of Wuppertal) and Prof. Jörn Hendrich Block (University of Trier), on „Best practices and rules for good corporate governance in foundation owned firms“ can…

This month several papers submitted by CEFS researchers were accepted for international conferences. The paper “Adverse Selection and the Performance of Private Equity Co-Investments” by Reiner Braun and Christoph Schemmerl together with Tim Jenkinson from the University of Oxford was accepted…

Prof. Kaserer has been appointed as a member of the Group of Economic Advisors (GEA) of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) for the period 2016 to 2018. ESMA has established the GEA to benefit from the expertise of stakeholders who are specialised in the analysis and risk assessment…

From 26 to 27 November 2015, the first two-day workshop on „foundation-owned companies” took place at Technical University of Munich (TUM).

The Paper "The Leverage, Pricing and Return Puzzle in Leveraged Buyouts: The Impact of Competition" was by Nicholas Crain, Reiner Braun and Anna Gerl was presented at the 8th Private Equity Findings Symposium at the London Business School in June 2015.

The paper “Travel Distance and Firm Valuation: International Evidence” by Marc Steffen Rapp, Thomas Schmid and Daniel Urban was presented at the IFABS 2015 Corporate Finance in Oxford.

The paper “The Leverage, Pricing and Return Puzzle in Leveraged Buyouts: The Impact of Competition” by Reiner Braun, Nicholas G. Crain and Anna Gerl was presented at the IFABS 2015 Corporate Finance Conference in London, UK.

The paper “Women on Corporate Boards: Good or Bad?” by Thomas Schmid and Daniel Urban was presented at the 2016 AFA Meeting and the Paris December 2015 Finance Meeting.