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Informing Entrepreneurs: Public Corporate Disclosure and New Business Formation

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  • Barrios, John M.

    (Washington U in St Louis)

  • Choi, Jung Ho

    (Stanford U)

  • Hochberg, Yael V.

    (Rice U)

  • Kim, Jinhwan

    (Stanford U)

  • Liu, Miao

    (Boston College)

Abstract

We examine the relationship between public firm disclosure and aggregate new business formation. Consistent with the notion that public company disclosures provide information spillovers that reduce the extent of uncertainty about new investment opportunities, we find that increased public firm presence is positively associated with new business formation in an industry. Furthermore, using plausibly exogenous information shocks generated by new IPOs in a geographic area, we find that post-IPO, new business registration in the public company's geographic area rise by 4 to 10%, consistent with soft information channels serving to reinforce hard information in public disclosures. New IPOs are associated with significant increases in Edgar downloading activity in the IPOs' geographic area, consistent with the notion that public firm disclosures are providing important investment opportunity information that facilitates new business formation.

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  • Barrios, John M. & Choi, Jung Ho & Hochberg, Yael V. & Kim, Jinhwan & Liu, Miao, 2020. "Informing Entrepreneurs: Public Corporate Disclosure and New Business Formation," Research Papers 3917, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business.
    • Handle: RePEc:ecl:stabus:3917
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    JEL classification:

    • D80 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - General
    • D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
    • L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
    • M41 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Accounting

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