While studies have documented that Initial Public Offering (IPO) aftermarket performance is weak, little is known about how the aftermarket performance is affected by takeovers of the newly public firms. We find that the aftermarket performance of IPOs is more favourable for those newly public...

We examine the impact of economic and political uncertainty on the choice made by U.S. firms to expand through domestic or cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Using recently developed indexes of economic and political uncertainty, we document that U.S. firms use cross-border mergers and...