The oscillating domains of public and private markets

  • We contribute to the debate about the future of capital markets and corporate finance, which has ensued against the background of a significant boom in private markets and a corresponding decline in the number of firms and the amount of capital raised in public markets in the US and Europe. Our research sheds light on the fluctuating significance of public and private markets for corporate finance over time, and challenges the conventional view of a linear progression from one market to the other. We argue instead that a more complex pattern of interaction between public and private markets emerges, after taking a long-term perspective and examining historical developments more closely. We claim that there is a dynamic divide between these markets, and identify certain factors that determine the degree to which investors, capital, and companies gravitate more towards one market than the other. However, in response to the status quo, other factors will gain momentum and favor the respective other market, leading to a new (unstable) equilibrium. Hence, we observe the oscillating domains of public and private markets over time. While these oscillations imply ‘competition’ between these markets, we unravel the complementarities between them, which also militate against a secular trend towards one market. Finally, we examine the role of regulation in this dynamic divide as well as some policy implications arising from our findings.

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Author:Alperen Afşin GözlügölORCiDGND, Julian Greth, Tobias TrögerORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-682134
URL:https://ssrn.com/abstract=4372011
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4372011
Series (Serial Number):LawFin Working Paper (No. 52)
SAFE working paper (No. 384)
European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper (No. 689/2023)
Publisher:Center for Advanced Studies on the Foundations of Law and Finance, House of Finance, Goethe University
Place of publication:Frankfurt am Main
Document Type:Working Paper
Language:English
Year of Completion:2023
Year of first Publication:2023
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2023/03/16
Tag:capital markets; corporate finance; financial regulation; private equity; private markets; public markets; securities regulation
Volume:March 2023
Page Number:41
Note:
We gratefully acknowledge research support from the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE and the Center for Advanced Studies Foundations of Law and Finance funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) - project FOR 2774.
Institutes:Rechtswissenschaft / Rechtswissenschaft
Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / House of Finance (HoF)
Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Center for Financial Studies (CFS)
Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe (SAFE)
Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / DFG-Forschergruppen / Foundation of Law and Finance
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft
3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht
JEL-Classification:D Microeconomics / D5 General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium / D53 Financial Markets
G Financial Economics / G1 General Financial Markets
G Financial Economics / G3 Corporate Finance and Governance
K Law and Economics / K2 Regulation and Business Law / K22 Corporation and Securities Law
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht