Post-issue stock underperformance is driven, at least in part, by the contemporary decline in idiosyncratic risk (proxied by idiosyncratic volatility) exposure for seasoned equity offerings (SEO) firms. As young firms dominate the SEO market, they generally face higher uncertainty of mean...

We examine how cross-sectional stock returns are influenced by research and development (R&D) spending funded by the public sector, which accounts for a substantial portion of total U.S. investments in innovation. Firms located in states with more public R&D spending earn higher abnormal stock...