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University of Florida Cordell Eminent Scholar and IPO expert Jay Ritter joins Yahoo! Finance Live to discuss the state of the IPO market, how it’s evolved in 2022, and what held many back.

Investment bankers had a rough year.

Thirty-seven operating companies went public and raised $7 billion in 2022—the lowest amount of total initial public offering proceeds since the $4.3 billion raised in 1990, according to Jay Ritter, Cordell Eminent Scholar.

New research from alumnus Anurag Garg (Ph.D. ’22) and Warrington’s Emre Demirezen, Kutsal Dogan and Kenny Cheng finds that despite the proliferation of platforms such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home, customers do not perceive them as valuable unless experiencing adequate levels of quality and security. This research studies the financial viability of the platform provider (like Amazon’s Alexa) and app developers, finding collaboration between these two sides plays a significant role in the profitability of all parties.

UF MBA Director of Admissions Naz Erenguc and BluePearl Pet Hospital COO and alumnus Da Chang (MBA ’19) share insights for this story focused on if applying to only one business school is an appropriate choice for MBA applicants.

Some 97% of shares in the SPAC set up by Primavera Capital were redeemed, as investors asked for their capital back instead of staying on board for the merger with Lanvin. Investors overall have turned away from SPAC listings, leading to high redemption rates. Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter shares insights.

Research data from Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter informs this story about KKR’s SPAC, which debuted during the go-go year of 2020 ahead of increased regulatory scrutiny and tighter credit conditions.

The country faces a scary reality after thousands of people in North Carolina lost power due to a “deliberate” attack over the weekend where gunfire damaged two electrical substations.

“There’s no way to completely protect the infrastructure,” Director of Energy Studies at the Public Utility Research Center at the University of Florida Ted Kury said.

But there are additional measures utilities can take to prepare, Kury explains.

More than a quarter of vacuum cleaners sold on Amazon have at some point pretended to offer a discount when they had actually just increased the price, according to new research from Jinhong Xie, JCPenney Eminent Scholar.

The fragmented leadership of the partners and various affiliates makes EY’s divestiture more complicated than recent spin-offs like those of General Electric Co. and Johnson & Johnson, said Jay Ritter, Cordell Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida.

“That’s where you’ve got the complications, where it’s going to take a lot longer than for a typical company,” Ritter said of the firm’s likely IPO.

Read more insights from Ritter in this story from Bloomberg Tax.

Positive interventions that distract us from difficult tasks actually help to reduce our stress levels, according to new research co-authored by Mo Wang, Associate Dean for Research and Lanzillotti-McKethan Eminent Scholar.