In April 2018, music streaming giant Spotify disrupted the traditional initial public offering model and became a publicly traded company through a novel process known as a direct listing. Eschewing standard Wall Street practice, Spotify did not raise new money through the offering and instead...

This document describes recent research on European Initial Public Offerings. The first section reviews my studies on valuation of IPOs, while Section 2 describes the papers on ownership and governance and Section 3 on performance of IPOs. The role of the underwriters is reviewed in Section 4....

Öffentlich-rechtliche Banken galten über Jahrzehnte als Stützpfeiler des deutschen Kapitalismusmodells und waren tief in die politische Ökonomie der Bundesrepublik eingebettet. Dies änderte sich, als die Europäische Kommission im Jahr 2001 das europäische Wettbewerbsrecht gegenüber der...