Ž . We examine the pricing of initial public offering IPO and seasoned equity offering Ž . SEO firms using a stochastic frontier methodology. The stochastic frontier framework models the difference between the maximum possible value of the firm and its actual market capitalization at the time of the offering as a function of observable firm characteristics. Using a new data set, we find that co...

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Highly variable returns, asymmetric information and a lack of collateral should cause small high-tech firms to have poor access to debt. New equity financing has several advantages over debt, but may be costly compared to internal finance. We examine an unbalanced panel of over 2,400 publicly traded United States high-tech companies over the period 1981 to 1998. Most small high-tech firms obtai...

This article contains hand collected and matched data on the VC investment situation in newly listed firms in SME and ChiNext board from 2009 to 2012 and the corresponding M&A activities data undertaken by these newly listed firms as acquirers in three years following initial public offering. Mentioned data are related to the research article "Heterogeneous Venture Capital, M&A Activity, and Ma...

The growing consensus that human intelligence and artificial are complementary has led to Human-AI hybrid systems. As digital platforms incorporating human-AI hybrids, platform designers need evaluate the influence of AI on judgment, how such systems perform. In this paper, we investigate: Are decisions influenced by agents in high uncertainty environments, as evaluating ICO projects? Under wha...