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During the past two decades, there has been a dramatic change in IPO activity around the world. Though vibrant IPO activity, attributed to better institutions and governance, used to be a strength of the U.S., it no longer is. IPO activity in the U.S. has fallen compared to the rest of the world...
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This paper empirically investigates the performance of Chinese initial public offerings (IPOs). The data used covers the period from mid-1995 to mid-1999 with the sample including 884 companies (both in the A- and B-share markets). In an examination of growth, profitability and stability of...
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, reducing the efficiency of trade. This need for opacity conflicts with the production of information about investment projects …
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This paper examines the extent to which investment financing and market-timing explanations motivate public equity … one motive for the equity offer being to raise capital for investment. However, firms also hold onto much of the cash they …. These results suggest that market timing as well as investment financing is a motivation for equity offers …
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examines the work on venture capital investments in companies, looking at issues of selection, contracting, post-investment …
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The monthly volatility of IPO initial returns is substantial, fluctuates dramatically over time, and is considerably larger during "hot" IPO markets. Consistent with IPO theory, the volatility of initial returns is higher among firms whose value is more difficult to estimate, i.e., among firms...
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We document that net equity issuance is considerably more sensitive to aggregate stock returns and Q's than to firm-level stock returns and Q's. Very similar patterns also emerge when we look at merger activity. In light of earlier work (Campbell 1991, Vuolteenaho 2002) which finds that...
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We develop a model of stock valuation and optimal IPO timing when investment opportunities are time-varying. IPO waves …
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Equity market liberalizations are like IPOs, but they are IPOs of a country's stock market rather than of individual firms. Both are endogenous events whose benefits are limited by poor investor protection, agency costs, and information asymmetries. As for stock prices following an IPO, there...
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