Liu, Lei; Jacoby, Gady; Song, Xiaoping; Zheng, Steven - 2022
We find that most IPO firms will run out of cash soon if they did not receive proceeds from IPOs, suggesting that cash … shortage may be one of the most important motives for IPOs. The cash shortfalls persist during the 5 years after IPO. Firms … with more initial cash shortfalls also have lower net cash flows in the next 5 years but are not valued lower in the IPO …