Privatization decisions of Australian firms: An empirical investigation

Shumi Akhtar

Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2016, vol. 39, issue C, 243-255

Abstract: This study revisits the determinants of Australian public firms that choose to go private. The new determinants hypothesized in this study - the presence of financial crises, stock salience and excessive foreign operations - are found to be crucial to a firm's decision to go private. While these determinants are found to be present at the time of the Initial Public Offering (IPO), it still takes an average of thirteen and a half years post-IPO for a public firm to back to being private.

Keywords: Going private; Financial crises; Business segments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927538X16300877
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:pacfin:v:39:y:2016:i:c:p:243-255

DOI: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2016.06.010

Access Statistics for this article

Pacific-Basin Finance Journal is currently edited by K. Chan and S. Ghon Rhee

More articles in Pacific-Basin Finance Journal from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().