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Jay Ritter discusses the critical importance of valuation for IPO success, the differences between institutional and retail-focused IPOs, the takeaways for management teams and innovations in the IPO process.

U.S. exchange operators are in talks with the Securities and Exchanges Commission on easing regulatory burdens for public companies, as they seek to encourage more richly valued startups to list, according to four people familiar with the matter. IPO insights from Jay Ritter inform this story.

Stocks of newly-public companies are surging in their first sessions at the fastest pace in three and a half years, enthralling traders and heating up the market for US first-time share sales. These spectacles may be thrilling to watch, but history shows extreme day-one pops rarely reward investors in the long run. Jay Ritter comments.

An interdisciplinary team led by University of Florida researchers has proposed an artificial intelligence, or AI, model to predict long-term mortality in patients with coronary artery disease. A team led by Md Mahmudul Hasan, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the UF College of Pharmacy Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy and the UF Warrington College of Business Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, hopes to improve treatment outcomes and reduce mortality in coronary artery disease, or CAD, patients with their lightweight graph neural network.

In an extensive study from Associate Professor Aaron Hill examining the relationship between personality traits and executive pay, CEOs who exhibit more Machiavellianism, characterized by motivation to achieve personal goals and ‘win’ social interactions, are more likely to have higher total pay and severance pay and to secure higher pay for those on their top management team.

Sell-side research analysts are unusual in that they are white-collar knowledge workers whose work quality is (1) public and (2) objectively measurable. So you can ask questions like “which characteristics make an analyst good,” and use publicly available information to get answers that are (1) plausibly true and (2) plausibly generalizable to other sorts of white-collar knowledge workers. And one way to find out is of course to look at analysts’ earnings estimates. Research from Baolian Wang and Ph.D. students Peixin Li and Jiawei Yu dives into how return to office mandates impacted equity analysts.

University of Florida Assistant Finance Professor Alejandro Lopez-Lira discusses the development of the technology and what he learned in the process on ‘The Claman Countdown.’

Initial public offerings (IPOs) captivate investors with the chance to get in on the ground floor of promising companies, potentially reaping substantial long-term returns as firms like Apple or Amazon once did. However, IPOs carry significant risks, often amplified by market hype and limited historical data. Studies, such as those by Jay Ritter show IPOs frequently underperform broader market benchmarks in their first year.

JBS, the biggest meatpacker in the world, is set to go public on the New York Stock Exchange this week. Jay Ritter comments on the company’s IPO.

Water bottle collection has become a trend. The impulse to collect, replace or upgrade is a choice shaped by consumer psychology. It allows consumers to blend personal style and usefulness while staying on trend. Aner Sela, City Furniture Professor, specializes in understanding how consumers make choices and form preferences. Consumers often choose products that are easy to justify buying, he said. They often underestimate the effect other people have on their choices.