Technological Disruptive Potential and the Evolution of IPOs and Sell-Outs

Since the late 1990s, the number of private firms exiting via initial public offerings (IPOs) in U.S. markets has sharply declined. At the same time, the number of exits via acquisitions (i.e., sell-outs) has soared. Successful firms are nowadays more likely to sell-out to other (public or private) companies than…

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The Deregulation of the Private Equity Markets and the Decline in IPOs

Recent years have seen a sharp decline in the number of initial public offerings (IPOs) in the U.S.

While this decline has garnered considerable attention both in academic and policy circles and in the press, its causes remain unclear (Gao, Ritter, and Zhu (2013); Doidge, Karolyi, and Stulz (2013, 2017)).…

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