This paper examines the decision of private firms to go public through two alternative routes – IPO vs. backdoor listing (BDL). The latter involves a sequence of structured inter-company events by which a private firm achieves a listing status by undertaking a reverse takeover of a...

Despite growing importance of project loans in funding large-scale projects, there is a void in the literature examining market reactions to project financing. Using a unique hand-collected sample of project finance approval announcements by Australian-listed mining firms, we document a...