An Empirical Analysis of Investment Return Dispersion in Emerging Market Private Equity

An Empirical Analysis of Investment Return Dispersion in Emerging Market Private Equity. Josh Lerner, Fall 2017, Paper, "The authors use transaction-level data to compare the dispersion of private equity (PE) returns in emerging markets (EMs) to the same in developed markets (DMs). They regress within-market absolute deviation from the mean on an EM indicator and controls. They find evidence suggesting that the distribution of transaction-level TVPI has lower variance within EMs than within DMs, although with some caveats. The results suggest opportunities for further research exploring the relative riskiness of EM PE."