1. Local Economic Spillover Effects of Stock Market Listings.
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Butler, Alexander W., Fauver, Larry, and Spyridopoulos, Ioannis
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EXTERNALITIES ,GOING public (Securities) ,STOCK exchanges ,CONSUMPTION (Economics) ,REGIONAL economics ,LABOR market - Abstract
We show that initial public offerings (IPOs) have nontrivial positive spillover effects on local labor markets, business environments, consumer spending, real estate, and migration. We mitigate endogeneity concerns about unobserved heterogeneity with restrictive geographic fixed effects coupled with a matching procedure. We show that it is the listing decision, which encompasses both a wealth and liquidity shock, that induces economic spillovers. Conditional on an IPO occurring, we estimate that an additional $10 million in IPO proceeds is associated with an extra 41 jobs and 0.7 new establishments locally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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