Performance of new equity issuers, venture capital and auditors' reputation
by Faras Batnini, Moez Khalfallah
International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management (IJPSPM), Vol. 1, No. 3, 2009

Abstract: This paper studies the importance of audit firms' reputation during the IPOs of venture capital funded firms. The literature review reveals that venture capital firms must achieve a successful IPO in order to increase their returns, rather than sell their shares to a private firm. However, the financial market penalises these IPOs systematically through a depreciation of price, which is linked to an important information asymmetry. Thus, venture capital investors try to strengthen their reputation through calling in other investors (i.e. syndication) or very reputed auditors. In order to better evaluate the correlation between audit firms' reputation and returns of venture capital funded firms, we have focused in our study on the IPOs.

Online publication date: Wed, 04-Nov-2009

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