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Going-Public and the Influence of Disclosure Environment
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This paper analyzes how differences in disclosure environments affect the firms choice between private and public capital. Disclosure regulations prescribe to what extent the firm has to release confidential information that may lead to the firm incurring proprietary cost. We examine which firms go public in equilibrium, and how the equilibrium outcomes change with changes in the disclosure environments.Going-public decision;disclosure environments;proprietary cost