Despite an increasing importance of secondary buyouts in the private equity market, little is known about the perspective of the seller and his motives for choosing this exit type. Do private equity firms have a clear pecking order regarding the exit channels for their portfolio companies? Is a...

By analyzing not only an overnight return but also a midday-recess return, namely, a stock return during midday-recess, I analyze whether and why market closures affect cross-sectional stock returns. I find strong persistence in overnight and midday-recess returns, with both returns positively...

The relationship between venture capital (VC) firms and underwriters is a central aspect of the startup ecosystem, but it is hard to identify to what extent underwriters influence VC firms' investment returns. Exploiting quasi-exogenous variation in underwriter closures and mergers, we find that...