Abstract
The high internal rates of return sought by private equity funds are highly sensitive to portfolio company holding periods. The authors examine the determinants of holding periods for a sample of European buyouts from 2000 to 2015. Their results establish that the average holding period has lengthened to 5.8 years in the period after the Global Financial Crisis. What explains this fact? The European sample allows the authors to control for both portfolio-company-level and fund-level differences. They first rule out that the increase is fully driven by changes in exit markets. Increased competition in European private equity markets remains a plausible complementary mechanism.
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