A popular view is that private equity (PE) firms tend to expropriate other stakeholders of their portfolio companies. Bonds offered during 1992-2011 by companies after their initial public offerings (IPOs) do not reflect this view. We find that yield spreads on bonds offered by PE-backed...

Using a sample of 2,281 SEOs from 1995-2004, we show that the marketing of securities is important to issuers. The number of managing underwriters for an SEO is negatively related to the offer price discount, especially when the relative offer size is large and the stock return volatility is...

We examine investment banks' networking function in capital markets, using a sample of Private Investments in Public Equity (PIPEs). We argue that investment banks develop relationships with investors through repeat dealings, and that such relationships form the basis of their networking...

Using a sample of syndicated loans to private equity (PE)-backed IPO companies, we examine how a third-party bank relationship influences the syndicate structure of a loan. We find that a stronger relationship between the lead bank and the borrower's PE firm enables the lead bank to retain a...

After two decades of low initial public offering (IPO) activity and a number of regulatory changes, the number of IPOs of both operating companies and special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) boomed in the U.S. in 2021 before collapsing in 2022. In recent years, surging valuations have...

Bank capital is an important determinant of secondary market liquidity of loans that a bank originates and syndicates. Higher bank capital is associated with significantly narrower loan bid-ask spreads. This effect is stronger when banks are subject to more external financing frictions and...

Using a new dataset on syndicated loan primary market pricing adjustments, we examine whether relationship banks' information advantage facilitates price discovery in loan issuances. We find that the lead bank makes fewer adjustments to the initial pricing terms of a syndicated loan and shortens...

Using NASDAQ reported individual stock level trading volume, we find that analyst research coverage on a stock increases an affiliated broker's market share of trading volume in that stock by 0.8 percent, on average, which corresponds to an additional annual volume of about one million shares in...

We examine how investment banks use initial public offerings (IPOs) in relation to their affiliated mutual funds. The dumping ground hypothesis predicts that the lead underwriter allocates cold IPOs to its affiliated funds so that more deals can be completed when demand for these IPOs is weak....