The specificities of the Canadian securities market render the analysis of private placements particularly insightful in this country. First, Canada applies very lax listing requirements, allowing tiny capitalization companies to list at a pre-revenue stage (Carpentier et al. 2009). Most of the...

In November 2001, the Canadian province of Ontario amended the private placement regulations considerably to facilitate access to equity financing by small and medium sized enterprises. To determine the extent to which securities regulation is an effective constraint on financing of growth...

We analyze the competition between two developed stock exchanges. Their development rests mainly on their capacity to attract securities and trades. The U.S. market is attracting a growing number of Canadian companies, and is capturing a growing portion of their traded value. This slide of...

We analyze the economic consequences of disclosure and regulation within a context of significant information asymmetry and lenient regulation. In Canada, firms can enter the stock market at a pre-revenue stage by fulfilling each of the requirements of an initial public offerings or using...

We analyze the long-run performance of the population of Canadian firms that cross-list in the US between 1990 and 2005, paying particular attention to cross-delisting companies. We ask why, since numerous firms cross-list to get the advantages associated with cross-listing, these firms'...

This paper examines whether high valuation of loss firms really exists and can be explained by behavioral factors. This valuation may originate from irrational behavior of optimistic investors who prefer lottery-like stocks, or from rational expectations of firms' profitability. Using a sample...

We evidence that Canadian seasoned equity issuers post a significant pre-issue stock price run-up and a significant post-issue underperformance, even when controlling for an investment risk factor, as in Lyandres, Sun and Zhang (2008). Our results do not corroborate the investment/risk...

We analyze the competition between two developed stock exchanges. Their development rests mainly on their capacity to attract securities and trades. The U.S. market is attracting a growing number of Canadian companies, and is capturing a growing portion of their traded value. This slide of...