{"title":"Staged financing of newly public firms around the world","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s11187-024-00901-7","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>We investigate the prevalence of capital staging (sequential infusion of capital) in the IPO markets in 47 countries between 1991 and 2019. Our evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that investors provide funds to IPOs in stages to mitigate costs associated with firm-specific uncertainty about future prospects and information asymmetry. Going public firms with more intangible assets and greater R&D intensity raise less money relative to financing needs at the time of the IPO and are more likely to return to capital markets for subsequent financing and do so more frequently. We also document that the evidence of staged financing is stronger in countries that provide better legal protection to investors.</p>","PeriodicalId":21803,"journal":{"name":"Small Business Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.5000,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Small Business Economics","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-024-00901-7","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"BUSINESS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We investigate the prevalence of capital staging (sequential infusion of capital) in the IPO markets in 47 countries between 1991 and 2019. Our evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that investors provide funds to IPOs in stages to mitigate costs associated with firm-specific uncertainty about future prospects and information asymmetry. Going public firms with more intangible assets and greater R&D intensity raise less money relative to financing needs at the time of the IPO and are more likely to return to capital markets for subsequent financing and do so more frequently. We also document that the evidence of staged financing is stronger in countries that provide better legal protection to investors.
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Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal (SBEJ) publishes original, rigorous theoretical and empirical research addressing all aspects of entrepreneurship and small business economics, with a special emphasis on the economic and societal relevance of research findings for scholars, practitioners and policy makers.
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