PhD defence: Nicola Giommetti

PhD defence: Nicola Giommetti

In order to obtain the PhD degree, Nicola Giommetti has submitted his thesis entitled:

Essays on Private Equity

This thesis studies private equity funds from an investor’s perspective. Private equity funds are illiquid investments with unobservable market returns, and I investigate how to estimate their historical risk-adjusted performance based on cash flows, and how to optimally allocate capital between private equity funds and publicly traded assets.

Primary Supervisor:
Professor Steffen Andersen

Department of Finance

Copenhagen Business School

Secondary Supervisor:

Associate Professor Morten Sørensen

Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

Assessment Committee:

Associate Professor Linda Sandris Larsen (Chair)

Department of Finance

Copenhagen Business School

Professor Peter Løchte Jørgensen

Department of Economics and Business Economics

Aarhus University

Professor Niklas Wagner

Department of Business and Economics

University of Passau

Thesis:
The thesis will be available from research.cbs.dk