Kaserer, Christoph; Mettler, Alfred; Obernberger, Stefan - Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies <München> - 2009
This paper examines the impact of SOX on the total cost and the component cost of going public. First, we document a statistically significant increase in non-underwriting expenses of 0.8 percentage points after the introduction of SOX, which is mostly due to an increase in accounting and legal...