Stefanie Franzke (Contact), Stefanie Grohs, Christian Laux - Center for Financial Studies - 2003
We present a survey on the role of initial public offerings (IPOs) and venture capital (VC) in Germany after the Second World War. Between 1945 and 1983 IPOs hardly played a role at all and only a minor role thereafter. In addition, companies that chose an IPO were much older and larger than the...