We examine how political connections impact the process of going public. Specifically, we test how political connections impact the pricing of newly offered shares, the magnitude of underpricing, and the fixed cost of going public. Based on experiences of the new public firms in the Chinese...

Pseudo-market prices of infrequently traded assets with scheduled cash flows - commercial real estate appraisals and matrix prices of commercial mortgage backed securities - are compared against a VAR model to assess the extent to which these widely-used proxies are grounded in economic...

We analyze the value of investor relations (IR) strategies to IPO firms. We find that firms that are less visible and have inexperienced management tend to hire IR consultants prior to the issue date. IR consultants help create positive news coverage before an IPO event as reflected in a more...