Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/177392 
Title: 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Publisher: 
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel und Hamburg
Abstract: 
Specified Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) are a special type of public companies currently available to investors in financial markets. As an investment vehicle, modern SPACs are traced back to 18-th century England where blank checks were first mentioned as blind pools during the infamous South Sea Bubble. In the United States, the Security and Exchange Commission classifies SPAC as a blank check company. This chapter reviews the academic and financial literatures about SPACs, describes their institutional characteristics and analyses their market performance since Initial Public Offering (IPO). The sole purpose of SPACs is to use the proceeds to finance future acquisition.
Subjects: 
Blank checks,
Initial public offering (IPO),
IPO survival
Mergers and Acquisition (M&A)
Specified Purpose Acquisition Companies
SPACs
JEL: 
G12
G32
G14
G24
Document Type: 
Preprint

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