...Robert Martin Hull; Sungkyu Kwak; Rosemary Walker Purpose This paper aims to determine if hedge fund performance is related to short-run initial public offering (IPO) success and if it is a better predictor of short-run IPO success than market performance. Design/methodology/approach...

... their counterparts with no cyberattacks on industry peers in the pre–initial public offering (IPO) period. The findings are robust to alternative industry definitions and cyberattack proxies, filtering on prominent cyberattacks and the inclusion of a battery of controls. Furthermore, a cyberattack on an industry...

... with higher costs of raising capital through initial public offerings (IPOs) for industry peers. Design/methodology/approach The authors employ several analysis techniques including univariate analysis, multivariate regressions, propensity score matching methodology, and probit estimation. The sample...