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Determinants of sovereign wealth fund investment in private equity vs public equity

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  • Sofia A Johan

    (1] Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada[2] Tilburg Law and Economics Centre, University of Tilburg, Tilburg, The Netherlands)

  • April Knill

    (Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA)

  • Nathan Mauck

    (University of Missouri – Kansas City, Kansas City, USA)

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This paper examines the investments of 19 sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) in 424 firms (both public and private) around the world from 1991 through 2010. The data indicate that SWFs, similar to other institutional investors, are less likely to invest in private equity than in public equity internationally. However, the economic significance of this impact is surprisingly low. Unlike other institutional investors, SWFs are more likely to invest in private equity compared with public equity in target nations where investor protection is low, and where the bilateral political relations between the SWF and the target nation are weak. Surprisingly, cultural differences play a marginally positive role in the choice to invest in private equity investment outside an SWF's own sovereign nation. Comprehensively, we find that SWFs act distinctively from other traditional institutional investors when investing in private equity.

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  • Sofia A Johan & April Knill & Nathan Mauck, 2013. "Determinants of sovereign wealth fund investment in private equity vs public equity," Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Academy of International Business, vol. 44(2), pages 155-172, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:jintbs:v:44:y:2013:i:2:p:155-172
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