We claim that the stock market encourages business creation, innovation, and growth by allowing the recycling of "informed capital". Due to incentive and information problems, new start-ups face high flotation costs. Sustaining a tight relationship with a monitor allows them to postpone their going public decision until profitability prospects are clearer of incentive problems are less severe.
E44 - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy ; G32 - Financing Policy; Capital and Ownership Structure ; O40 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity. General