Going Public Abroad

49 Pages Posted: 6 Nov 2013

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Cecilia Caglio

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Kathleen Weiss Hanley

Lehigh University - College of Business; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

Jennifer Marietta-Westberg

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

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Date Written: October 2, 2013

Abstract

This paper examines the decision to go public abroad using a sample of 17,808 IPOs. Although only 6% of initial public offerings are offered abroad, these represent approximately 25% of total IPO proceeds. We find that alleviating informational frictions in order to obtain greater offering proceeds is an important determinant of the decision to go public abroad. Foreign and global IPOs originate from countries with significantly fewer recent IPOs in the same industry, less developed capital markets, and lower disclosure standards. Contrary to assumptions in prior research, we also show that the determinants of whether to go public abroad or to go public at home and cross-list later are not similar. In addition, we find that the preferences for going public in certain foreign markets have changed over time and the factors that impact the choice of listing market are not consistent across all countries.

Keywords: IPO, cross listing

JEL Classification: G3, G15

Suggested Citation

Caglio, Cecilia and Hanley, Kathleen Weiss and Marietta-Westberg, Jennifer, Going Public Abroad (October 2, 2013). FEDS Working Paper No. 2013-68, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2350821 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2350821

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Kathleen Weiss Hanley

Lehigh University - College of Business ( email )

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European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

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Jennifer Marietta-Westberg

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( email )

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