Most of the analyses of small firms' decision to seek outside equity financing and the conditions thereof have concerned private firms. Knowledge of the risk and return of entrepreneurial ventures for outside investors is consequently limited. This paper attempts to fill this gap by examining...

Private placements in public equity (PIPEs) are proliferating; in the United States, their growth is estimated at 30% per year. PIPEs are issued as part of prospectus exemptions. Because they can alleviate the financing difficulties of growing high tech companies, they should interest the...

Cette étude montre qu'il est possible, dans un cadre d'équilibre d'anticipations rationnelles bruité, d'établir une relation linéaire formelle entre le prix des titres, la moyenne (le consensus) et la dispersion des anticipations des agents. Les variations de la moyenne et de la dispersion...

The aim of this study is to measure the cost of capital of the Canadian knowledge based firms in order to compare it with other Canadian firms' cost of capital. To determine which firms are based on knowledge, we use the research and development ratio. Estimations are achieved with several...

This study deals with the evolution of the financing of large Canadian companies from 1960 to 1994. Part I shows that there hass been no significant increase in total corporate debt in Canada, as there has been in the U.S. Total indebtness increased between 1960 and 1982 and then declined; by...

Cet article examine de manière conjointe les effets de la taille, des ratios bénéfice/cours et valeur comptable/valeur marchande des actions sur les rendements des actions canadiennes. Il présente une estimation des primes de risque associées à chacune de ces anomalies de marché. Les...