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The Really Long-Run Performance of Initial Public Offerings : The Pre-Nasdaq Evidence
Gompers, Paul A. - 2010
Financial economists in recent years have closely examined and intensely debated the performance of initial public offerings using data after the formation of NASDAQ. The paper seeks to shed light on this controversy by undertaking a large, out-of-sample study: we examine the performance for up...
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Why Does Idiosyncratic Risk Increase with Market Risk?
Bartram, Söhnke M. - 2016
From 1963 through 2015, idiosyncratic risk (IR) is high when market risk (MR) is high. We show that the positive relation between IR and MR is highly stable through time and is robust across exchanges, firm size, liquidity, and market-to-book groupings. Though stock liquidity affects the...
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Do Public Firms Respond to Industry Opportunities More than Private Firms? The Impact of Initial Firm Quality
Maksimovic, Vojislav - 2019
We track firms at birth and compare the growth pattern of IPO firms and their birth-matched counterparts. Firms that are larger at birth with faster initial growth are more likely to attain a larger size later in life and go public. Firms in the top percentile of predicted propensity to go...
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Can a Tiger Change its Stripes? Reform of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises in the Penumbra of the State
Harrison, Ann E. - 2019
there are clear improvements in performance post-privatization. The tiger can change its stripes; however, the government …
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Venture Capital Investments and Merger and Acquisition Activity Around the World
Phillips, Gordon M. - 2017
We examine the relation between venture capital (VC) investments and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity around the world. We find evidence of a strong positive association between VC investments and lagged M&A activity, consistent with the hypothesis that an active M&A market provides...
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Efficient Local Government Service Provision : the Role of Privatization and Public Sector Unions
Jerch, Rhiannon - 2016
among top 20 largest cities by population. We estimate the cost savings from privatization and explore the political economy … of why privatization rates are lower in high cost unionized areas. Our analysis finds that the full privatizaton could …
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The Value Spread as a Predictor of Returns
Liu, Naiping - 2005
Recent studies have used the value spread to predict aggregate stock returns to construct cash-flow betas that appear to explain the size and value anomalies. We show that two related variables, the book-to-market spread (the book-to-market of value stocks minus that of growth stocks) and the...
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Legislating Stock Prices
Cohen, Lauren - 2012
In this paper we demonstrate that legislation has a simple, yet previously undetected impact on firm stock prices. While it is understood that the government and firms have an important relationship, it remains difficult to determine which firms any given piece of legislation will affect, and...
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Nonlinear Policy Rules and the Identification and Estimation of Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design
Card, David - 2012
We consider nonparametric identification and estimation in a nonseparable model where a continuous regressor of … endogenous assignment variable (like previous earnings). We provide new results on identification and estimation for these … unemployment insurance benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, where the benefit schedule has kinks at the minimum and …
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Regression Kink Design : Theory and Practice
Card, David - 2016
unemployment benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, and discuss implementation issues that may arise in similar … nonparametric estimation (e.g. Imbens et al. (2012) and Calonico et al. (2014)) are sometimes interpreted by practitioners as … pointing to a default estimation procedure, we show that in any given application different procedures may perform better or …
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