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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Why Wait? A Century of Life before IPO

  • Boyan Jovanovic
  • Peter L. Rousseau
American Economic Review
vol. 91, no. 2, May 2001
(pp. 336–341)
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Citation

Jovanovic, Boyan, and Peter L. Rousseau. 2001. "Why Wait? A Century of Life before IPO." American Economic Review, 91 (2): 336–341. DOI: 10.1257/aer.91.2.336

JEL Classification

  • G32 Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure
  • N22 Economic History: Financial Markets and Institutions: U.S.; Canada: 1913-