Steven N. Kaplan

Mergers and productivity

Advanced Introduction to Private Equity

Characteristics, contracts, and actions

The staying power of leveraged buyouts

Do financing constraints explain why investment is correlated with cash flow?

Top executives, turnover and firm performance in Germany

Top executive rewards and firm performance

'Outside' intervention in Japanese companies

The evolution of buyout pricing and financial structure

Venture capitalists as principals

How has CEO turnover changed?

Investment-cash flow sensitivities are not valid measures of financing constraints

What are firms?

The valuation of cash flow forecasts

How do legal differences and learning affect financial contracts?

The success of acquisitions

How risky is the debt in highly leveraged transactions?

Which CEO characteristics and abilities matter?

Wall Street and Main Street

A clinical exploration of value creation and destruction in acquisitions

Financial contracting theory meets the real world