We evaluate the role of insider ownership in shaping banks’ equity issuances in response to the global financial crisis. We construct a unique dataset on the ownership structure of U.S. banks and their equity issuances and discover that greater insider ownership leads to less equity issuances....

Die Frage, auf welche Weise Wachstumsunternehmen ihren Eigenkapitalbedarf im Zeitablauf optimal decken sollten, wurde in der finanzierungstheoretischen Literatur trotz ihrer hohen praktischen Relevanz bislang weitgehend vernachlässigt. Der Autor befaßt sich mit dem Problem, zu welchen...

This paper conjectures that, just as SEO (seasoned equity offering) firms are likely to face fewer information asymmetry problems relative to IPO firms, the same applies to SECO relative to initial ECF (equity crowdfunding) campaign firms. This is mainly due to new information at a SECO - such...