Reiff, Annika - In: Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management 32 (2025) 3
This paper examines the prediction of IPO withdrawal using machine learning methods (lasso and random forest) and conventional regression (logit). The dataset comprises 2444 US first‐time IPOs from 1997 to 2014. Results show that random forest outperforms both logit and lasso in in‐sample...