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We develop a dynamic model of corporate investment and financing decisions in whichcorporate insiders have superior information about the firm's growth prospects. We show thatrms with positive private information can credibly signal their type to outside investors usingthe timing of corporate...
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intoaccount not only the test performances but also signaling element of the test. Weanalyze the selection procedure as a … signaling game and derive the optimal selectionrule. Moreover, the optimal size of candidate pool and the selection e¢ ciency …
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ability. Then, as a signaling, each candidatedecides whether to perform a task whose performance statistically re‡ects the … ability.However, since the cost of the performance is the same across all candidates, theperformance is a poor signaling … device. This paper analyzes a "signaling game withperformance" in which the standard single crossing condition is violated …
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This paper proposes an explanation for two empirical puzzles surrounding initial public offerings (IPOs). Firstly, it is well documented that IPO underpricing increases during quot;hot issuequot; periods. Secondly, venture capital (VC) backed IPOs are less underpriced than non venture capital...
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control moral hazard and a signaling device to minimize asymmetric information. Using a hand collected data on lockups in … effective in signaling firm quality, while full lockups more effective as a commitment device …
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Nearly 40% of IPO firms redact information from their SEC registration filings. These firms exhibit characteristics consistent with the need to shield proprietary information from potential rivals. They experience greater underpricing, but pre-IPO insiders reduce underpricing-related wealth...
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We use the presence of a Wikipedia article for initial public offering (IPO) firms to test theories of information asymmetry and investor awareness. While we find limited support for the former, our results provide strong support for theories of investor awareness. Specifically, IPO firms with a...
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This paper develops a tractable real options framework to analyze the eects of asym-metric information on investment and nancing decisions when rms require externalfunds to nance investment. Our analysis shows that corporate insiders can signal theirprivate information to outside investors using...
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Governments and corporations frequently auction assets with embedded real options using both cash and contingent bids. I characterize equilibrium bidding and option exercise strategies, and find that the moral hazard associated with uncontractible investment timing inefficiently and...
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The signaling hypothesis suggests that firms have incentives to underprice their initial public offerings (IPOs) to … empirical evidence on the signaling hypothesis was weak, Francis et al. (2010) show that foreign firms from segmented (rather … players. Hence, the attractiveness of the signaling strategy seems to be related to the a priori level of information …
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