This paper investigates the impact of labor unionization on IPO underpricing. We demonstrate that the existence of unions reduces underpricing by 11.20%. Unionized IPOs are associated with downward offer-price revisions, higher cost of capital, inferior firm-operating performance, and...

Greater partisan alignment among lawmakers enhances their ability to respond rapidly to adverse shocks, but it also undermines the quality of checks and balances and encourages excessive governmental intervention in local areas aligned with the ruling party. We investigate how this form of local...

We frame IPO pricing as an efficiency problem for prospective issuers and explore the effect of connections formed via lobbying and PAC (Political Action Committee) contributions as proxies for corporate political connections. Rather than imposing a regression-based framework, we allow...