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...

In recent years, demutualized stock exchanges have been increasingly engaging in M&A and alliance activities. To examine the effect of these growth strategies on exchange shareholders’ value creation, we focus on 14 public stock exchanges and investigate their short-run share price responses...