to investments made by newly listed firms which grow by acquisitions. Overall, firms acquired shortly after listing are …

abnormal returns for acquisitions of public firms paid for with equity (but not for acquisitions of private firms paid for with …, and higher idiosyncratic volatility. The opposite result holds for acquisitions of public firms paid for with cash for …

We study advertising at the brand level in a sample of corporate acquisitions. New owners display an elevated …

U.S. firms currently hold a $2trillion cash stockpile. We examine if cash stockpiles fuel cash acquisitions by studying … that the link between cash stockpiles and cash acquisitions is not obvious. …

acquisitions undertaken by French listed companies between January 1997 and December 2006. Comparing both, short-term and long …

Initial public offerings and acquisitions are decisive and unique events in a firm’s life cycle. Motivations of private … analyze the relationship between initial public offerings and acquisitions in Central and Eastern Europe. We find evidence …

Using a hand-collected data set of private firm acquisitions and IPOs, this paper develops the first empirical analysis …'s choice between IPOs and acquisitions. Our analysis of private firm valuations in IPOs and acquisitions indicates that IPO …'s propensity to choose IPOs over acquisitions. Further, after controlling for the long-run component of the expected payoff to firm …