Initial Public Offerings, Liquidity, and Corporate Governance

The book is a compilation of three related essays on initial Public Offerings, liquidity, productivity growth and corporate governance. The first essay looks at the long run performance of initial public offerings (IPOs) in the United States relative to their liquidity profile. The book provides a liquidity based explanation for why certain IPOs underperform in the long run. The second essay relates corporate governance to a firm’s productivity growth. Given technology and industry constraints, some firms are very efficient whereas others are not and some firms have much faster rates of innovation and productivity growth than others. The book seeks to provide an explanation by looking at the relationship between a firm''s governance structures and total factor productivity. The third essay connects the first two essays. It looks at the differences in the long term performance of IPOs with strong and weak corporate governance.