Skott, Peter; Ryoo, Soon - Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst - 2007
to new equity issues
shows a clearer picture. Whether measured in terms of the value of new issues
divided by the market …), there has
been a signi�cant decline in new issues. In the 1950s-1970s a small positive
fraction of gross investment - on … average about 5 percent - was �nanced by new
issues. Since 1980, however, the rate of net issues has been negative in most
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