In this study we examine how Specified Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) were used as a financing tool for … 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 …

This study examines how Specified Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) have been used as a financing tool for the … shipping industry in period 2004-2013. SPACs that focused on acquisitions in the shipping industry statistically have similar … characteristics as the population of SPACs that entered U.S financial markets in the same period. Additionally, shipping companies …

of credit spreads' changes of global shipping bond issues before and after the onset of the subprime financial crisis …-carrying companies' shipping bond spreads are found in this paper to be: the liquidity of the bond issue, the stock market's volatility …

The study explored the impact of maritime transport financing on trade in South Africa. Using the Autoregressive … Distribution lag model, we examine the impact of maritime transport financing on total trade in South Africa during the period 1994 … to 2019. The results confirm a long and short-run positive relationship between maritime transport financing and total …