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• Regional Differences And Underwriter Location In Initial Public Offerings

  BNET - 2005-05-23

  Equity capital is often an important source of funds for growing firms. This paper investigates the regional differences in the size of newly organized Initial Public Offerings, an important source of equity capital. It also investigates the importance of underwriter reputation and location to the size of the offering. The...

  Tags: University Of Wisconsin, Equity, IPO, Investment, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance

• A Large Speculator in Contagious Currency Crises: A Single "George Soros" Makes Countries More Vulnerable to Crises, But Mitigates Contagion

  BNET - 2003-11-01

  This paper studies the model that proposes a new contagion channel and shows how a currency crisis can spread from one country to another even when these countries are totally unrelated in terms of economic fundamentals. It finds that the better the economic fundamentals in the originating crisis country, the...

  Tags: University Of Wisconsin, Crisis, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Services, Finance

• Seed and Venture Capital Formulation: Essential to High-Tech Business Job Growth

  BNET - 2000-11-13

  The ability to generate and sustain high technology companies and employment in Wisconsin is dependent on three general factors: equity investment capacity, human resources, and a supply of technologies and business ideas. Investment capacity is clearly the one key area where Wisconsin suffers from comparative disadvantage versus other states in...

  Tags: Job, Equity Investment, Job Growth, Wisconsin, University Of Wisconsin, Investment Capacity, Investment, Venture Capital, Financing Startups, Financial Services, Finance