Melody on Private Equity Funds
A new working paper by Professor Bill Melody, “Can Short-Term Cash Flow “Investor value” Incentives Satisfy Long-Term Diversified Public Policy Objectives?” considers the implications for investors in this new financial market and the impact of these funds on financial stability in the telecom sector in Europe, and examines the particualr cases of Ireland and Denmark where the former incumbent telecom operators have been taken over by private equity funds.
Click here to download the paper in .pdf format.
See also, Melody´s recent paper Private Equity Takeover of Telecom Infrastructure in Denmark, published in the Nordic and Baltic Journal of Information and Communication Technologies (NB!ict).



January 25th, 2008 at 19:02
Thanks for this resource. I just wanted to give you a heads up that I’m going to probably mention it and your post here within my hedge fund blog: http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com .
- Richard
June 13th, 2008 at 15:07
[...] contributed to the content of this report, as did Professor Bill Melody whose contributions on private equity were called attention to in the media coverage around the report, which was presented this week to [...]