TY - BOOK AU - Baldi,Francesco ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Private Equity Targets: Strategies for Growth, Market Barriers and Policy Implications T2 - SpringerBriefs in Business, SN - 9788847028265 AV - HG1-HG9999 U1 - 332 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Milano PB - Springer Milan, Imprint: Springer KW - Finance KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Macroeconomics KW - Finance, general KW - Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics N1 - 1. The Economics of Private Equity: Designing and Structuring the Management Company -- 2. Who are Private Equity Targets? -- 3. Survey on Private Equity Investment Targeting in Italy -- 4. A Private Equity Deal: the Case of Invisible Ink -- 5. Conclusions N2 - Economics of private equity (PE). Empirical evidence on Italian manufacturing firms resorting to internal equity only to finance investments with positive NPV. Normative framework providing guidelines on how their entrepreneurial model (governance, gearing, growth) would be favourably influenced by conventional PE actions. Policy recommendations on how to expedite PE ownership expansion in Italy and other European countries UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2826-5 ER -