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D-Index
65
Citations
57335
World Ranking
579
National Ranking
373

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Financial Management Association
  • Fellow of the Financial Management Association
  • Fellow of the Financial Management Association

Overview

Jay R. Ritter is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields within Business, Management, and Accounting, with a strong emphasis on Accounting, Strategy and Management, Finance, and Economics and Econometrics as subfields.

Their work extensively covers topics such as Corporate Finance and Governance, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, Financial Reporting and Valuation Research, State Capitalism and Financial Governance, Firm Innovation and Growth, and Auditing, Earnings Management, and Governance.

Notable recent publications include:

  • "Initial Public Offerings Chinese Style" (2022), published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
  • "SPACs" (2023), published in the Review of Financial Studies
  • "Corporate Cash Shortfalls and Financing Decisions" (2020), published in the Review of Financial Studies
  • "The Puzzle of Frequent and Large Issues of Debt and Equity" (2021), published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
  • "SPACs" (2021), published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Their research has appeared frequently in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Financial Studies, Annual Review of Financial Economics, and The Journal of Portfolio Management.

Frequent collaborators include Donghang Zhang, Rongbing Huang, Xinjian Shao, Minmo Gahng, and Yiming Qian, reflecting ongoing research relationships across multiple projects and publications.

Jay R. Ritter has been recognized as a Fellow of the Financial Management Association.

Best Publications

  • The New Issues Puzzle

    Tim Loughran;Jay R. Ritter

  • The Long‐Run Performance of initial Public Offerings

    Jay R. Ritter

  • INVESTMENT BANKING, REPUTATION, AND THE UNDERPRICING OF INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS*

    Randolph P. Beatty;Jay R. Ritter

  • A Review of IPO Activity, Pricing, and Allocations

    Jay R. Ritter;Ivo Welch

  • Why Has IPO Underpricing Changed Over Time

    Tim Loughran;Jay Ritter

  • THE HOT ISSUE MARKET OF 1980

    Jay R. Ritter

  • Initial public offerings: International insights

    Tim Loughran;Jay R. Ritter;Kristian Rydqvist

  • Why Don’t Issuers Get Upset About Leaving Money on the Table in IPOs?

    Tim Loughran;Jay R. Ritter

  • Econometrics of Event Studies

    S.P. Kothari;Jerold B. Warner

  • The operating performance of firms conducting seasoned equity offerings

    Tim Loughran;Jay R. Ritter

  • Short interest, institutional ownership, and stock returns

    Paul Asquith;Parag A. Pathak;Jay R. Ritter

  • Testing Theories of Capital Structure and Estimating the Speed of Adjustment

    Rongbing Huang;Jay R. Ritter

  • Measuring abnormal performance: Do stocks overreact?

    Navin Chopra;Josef Lakonishok;Jay R. Ritter

  • The costs of going public

    Jay R. Ritter

  • INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS

    Roger G. Ibbotson;Jody L. Sindelar;Jay R. Ritter

  • The Seven Percent Solution

    Hsuan-Chi Chen;Jay R. Ritter

  • Innovation and Communication: Signalling with Partial Disclosure

    Sudipto Bhattacharya;Jay R. Ritter

  • THE MARKET'S PROBLEMS WITH THE PRICING OF INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS

    Roger G. Ibbotson;Jody L. Sindelar;Jay R Ritter

  • A Review of IPO Activity, Pricing and Allocations

    Ivo Welch;Ivo Welch;Jay R. Ritter

  • The New Issues Puzzle

    Tim Loughran;Jay R. Ritter

  • Why Has IPO Underpricing Changed Over Time

    Tim Loughran;Jay R. Ritter

  • Abstracts of volume 2Initial public offerings: International insights

    Tim Loughran;Jay R. Ritter;Kristian Rydqvist

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Loughran
Tim Loughran University of Notre Dame
Silvio Vismara
Silvio Vismara University of Bergamo
Bradford D. Jordan
Bradford D. Jordan University of Florida
Ivo Welch
Ivo Welch University of California, Los Angeles
David G. Robinson
David G. Robinson Heidelberg University
Ramana Nanda
Ramana Nanda Imperial College London
Roger G. Ibbotson
Roger G. Ibbotson Yale University
Frank Packer
Frank Packer Bank for International Settlements
Josh Lerner
Josh Lerner Harvard University

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