Shachmurove, Yochanan; Vulanovic, Milos - 2013
companies in the shipping industry in period 2004-2011. We confirm that SPACs focused on acquisitions in the shipping industry … characteristics differ, SPACs focused on shipping are larger in size than the rest of SPACs, have larger number of underwriters in … syndicate, and have a higher rate of merger success. Also, the founders of shipping SPACs tend to be, on average, younger than …