Welcome to CMRC

Welcome to the Credit Management Research Centre (CMRC).  The unique focus of CMRC is to engage in a research programme that combines academic rigour with practitioner and policy relevance.  CMRC’s mandate – to create and disseminate knowledge – goes hand in hand

Read more

Private equity portfolio firm performance in periods of crisis

Our recently published study with Dr Paul Lavery in the Journal of Corporate Finance https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2024.102641 investigates the performance of private equity (PE)-backed companies during the COVID-19 pandemic, revealing their greater resilience compared to closely matched industry counterparts. However, the superior performance was

Read more