Although trademarks are mentioned in many firms' initial public offering (IPO) prospectuses,
their influences on the IPO valuation process are underexplored. This paper studies the …

Abstract Options trading on Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) has grown exponentially
over the past two decades. This article investigates whether, and to what extent, higher …

Firms are used to registering trademarks for intellectual property protection which ultimately
increases their innovations. Using a novel data set tracking firm‐level trademark …

This paper studies the relationship between a firm's pre-IPO trademarks and its IPO
underpricing. Using 4,321 US IPOs during the period 1980-2016, we find that firms with a …

This paper examines the relationship between competition and product development
innovation using the US trademark database. We find that greater import competition spurs …

We examine how US firms adjust their product development strategy to increases in foreign
competition. Using a novel dataset of firms' trademark registrations to proxy for new …