Invitation and Call For Papers
The Argentum Centre For Private Equity Symposium 2012

September 6th, 2012, Solstrand Hotel Bergen

The Argentum Centre for Private Equity at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) is pleased to invite interested academics and practitioners to the Centre's conference on Private Equity on September 6th 2012, at the Solstrand Hotel in Bergen.

The Symposium will be organized in association with Argentum and will directly follow the Argentum Conference 2012 to be held the day before at the same venue.

SYMPOSIUM FOCUS: This symposium is motivated by the unprecedented boom and bust in private equity and venture capital investments in the last few years. 2010 and 2011 saw unprecedented macroeconomic uncertainty in Europe and the US. At the same time, institutional investors are reassessing their exposure to the industry while the rapid growth and globalization of the industry has worried policy makers and raised demands for increased regulation and disclosure of this sector.

TOPICS: Topics may include, but are not restricted to:
- Return Measurement for PE Investments
- Impact of PE Investments on Portfolio Firms
- Early Stage Markets
- Regulation of VC/PE Investments

We plan on having five presentations of recent research papers, with a discussant for each paper.

CALL FOR PAPERS: We invite authors to submit high-quality research papers broadly in line with the themes described above. Both empirical and theoretical papers are welcome.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Interested authors should e-mail their paper in Acrobat PDF format to Carsten Bienz, Email: private.equity@nhh.no by no later than May 15th, 2012.

EXPENSES: The Argentum Private Equity Centre will provide accommodation as well as reimbursement for reasonable travel expenses for presenting authors and discussants.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Academic program committee:
- Carsten Bienz, NHH
- Uli Hege, HEC
- Yael Hochberg, Kellogg
- Tyler Hull, NHH
- Morten Sorensen, Columbia
- Karin Thorburn, NHH
FURTHER INFORMATION: For further information, see: http://www.nhh.no/pec