Private Equity Funds Dataset
Preqin on funds (size, crossborder within EU) and fundmanagers and Worldbank on GDP of the memberstates.
Merged in Stata on Fundmanagers as common identifier (N=1.630). Independent variable is the implementation of AIMFD in 2013; Dependent variables are PE capital supply (fundsizes) and PE crossborder deals. Control variables: PE firm age and PE experience, and GDP. OLS regression measuring continuous effect size from AIMFD on Fundsize and Binary logistic regression measuring AIMFD effect on cross-border activity.. The outcomes were correlated with the contractual relationships between institutional investors and PE fundmanagers.
