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Prior studies have shown that newly public firms exhibit a high degree of uncertainty and asymmetric information, with few reliable sources of information. These findings suggest that investors could benefit if some independent party is able to assess the quality of a newly public firm. Since...
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Previous research on relationship lending has paid very little attention to the role of trust. Trust might be ex-pected to reduce agency costs, perceived credit risk and thus the request for personal collateral. Trustworthiness is associated with three attributes of SME owner/managers’:...
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The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of microfinance bank credit and its debt servicing on the profitability of SMEs in Alimosho Local Government Area, Lagos State, Nigeria. A survey was carried out involving 387 SMEs in Alimosho LGA, Lagos State and information was extracted...
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In this study, we use bank loan information to construct proxies for corporate transparency and examine whether these measures reflect information asymmetry in the stock market. Our analysis is based on a novel dataset of stock transactions and bank loans of all publicly listed firms on the...
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). We do this by using the 5B-IPO program of the SEC as our instrument to define a small firm. Having identified small firms …, we test the three IPO anomalies to see if small firms differ from large firms along these dimensions. We find that 5B …
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firm outcomes, such as acquisition or IPO. In our model, increasing overconfidence produces two conflicting effects on the …
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This paper analyzes stock returns for biotechnology firms after initial public offering (IPO) and explores the effect … average abnormal returns (CAARs) of 1.97% in the first 25 days post-IPO and a decline of tens of percentage points over the … yield negative CAARs immediately following the IPO; however, this negative CAAR becomes significant only from day 50 onward …
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, private security exchanges. This paper uses data on IPO firms that list on the SharesPost private securities exchange platform … to examine the potential benefits of a listing. Specifically, we test whether a listing reduces IPO underpricing or … enables liquidity provision to firm employees. Controlling for endogeneity, we find no evidence that a pre-IPO listing on …
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The phenomenon of underpricing is the subject of many studies on the stock markets, but there is still a research gap referring to the European Alternative Investment Markets, markets for small and medium companies. They are a source of capital and such an anomaly as underpricing could be a...
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