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Gone With the Wind: Small IPOs, the JOBS Act, and Reality

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A dramatic reversal occurred in the capital markets, beginning around 2000, and its causes and implications appear to have been widely misunderstood. From 1980 to 2000, an average of 310 operating companies did initial public offerings (IPOs) each year, but …

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Editor's Tweet: Professor Coffee discusses small IPOs, the JOBS Act, and reality. He suggests some alternative explanations for the decline of the IPO.

Re-energizing the IPO Market

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In the policy-oriented paper, “Re-energizing the IPO Market,”which will be published in the 2013 Brookings Press book Restructuring to Speed Economic Recovery, I summarize results from a number of my related co-authored papers and address why IPO …

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Editor's Tweet: Leading expert on IPOs, Professor Jay Ritter (University of Florida) provides a summary of his work on why IPO volume continues to be so low