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This study examines the incremental impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on the market valuation of the discretionary component of banks' provision for loan losses. The SOX act provides an interesting context for testing the efficacy of corporate governance provisions developed in the...
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This paper provides a direct test of banks' ability to mitigate informational asymmetries. In syndicated loans, lenders' incentive to screen ex ante and monitor ex post borrowers increases with the share they retain; consequently, the higher this share, the less risky the loan is considered by...
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proliferate. One often hears about the incredible capital gains of IPO share prices. This paper refutes the myth that investors …
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This paper attempts to extend the Certification Paradigm--mainly used in the literature as an explanation for IPO …
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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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both the entrepreneur and the incumbent to produce their products. I analyze three different exit routes: (1) IPO, (2 … likely via an IPO, in comparison with the CVC. The analysis generates a number of empirical implications for the difference …
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Despite the sometimes intensive media coverage and exuberant storytelling around the industry, venture capital (VC) investors tend to operate in highly opaque markets. On this premise, this work contributes to the literature via a hand-collected dataset of about 3,600 EIF-backed VC investments...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345093
Despite the sometimes intensive media coverage and exuberant storytelling around the industry, venture capital (VC) investors tend to operate in highly opaque markets. On this premise, this work contributes to the literature via a hand-collected dataset of about 3,600 EIF-backed VC investments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011863286