Motivated by the growing attention to the financing decisions of family firms, this review
brings together the two highly relevant research fields of family business and finance. This …

This paper discusses the literature on delisting, drawing on USA and international evidence.
Given the great heterogeneity in delisting operations, we first consider the standard existing …

Owing to the sheer volume of research that has been done in the field of private equity (PE)
in the last decade it may be pertinent to mention that PE studies became the focal point of …

Abstract In 2003, the German Stock Exchange instituted the Prime Standard as the highest
regulated stock market segment in Germany. We analyze the firms' delisting decisions from …

Our purpose is to understand the process of 'going private'decisions in family firms by
applying a socioemotional wealth (SEW) perspective, specified in the following research …

The present study investigates the sources of shareholder wealth gains–as measured by
cumulative abnormal returns and premiums–from going private transactions (GPTs). Using …

This paper studies the impact of increased securities regulation on the IPOs of small and
high‐tech, knowledge‐intensive firms. We take advantage of the adoption of European SOX …

In most European countries, the number of exchange-listed firms has begun declining
subsequent to the global financial crisis in 2008/2009. In the US, these numbers had already …

In Italy, as in many other European countries, listed firms will normally go dark through
controlling owner-initiated tender offers. We find that institutional investors play a central role …

Relative to the decision to go public, the decision to delist is less studied in the corporate
finance literature despite its importance in the life of the firm. This article surveys the recent …