We set out to understand the size of DLOMs by comparing the subject of the discounts, privately held companies, to the bases from which discounts should be applied. These relevant bases include publicly traded firms considered as guideline public companies and public market benchmarks from which...

We study the effects private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) financing have on small and mid-sized single entity business establishments from 1995-2009. We focus on single entity establishments to cleanly examine the impact of PE and VC financing on establishments' organic growth. This...

Using the WHO announcement on March 11, 2020 and the Federal Reserve Bank announcement on April 9, 2020 as two events that represent the shock and the stimulus, this study finds that COVID-19 caused a negative shock to the global stock markets, especially in emerging markets and for small firms....