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dc.contributor.advisorGleason, Kimberly
dc.contributor.authorZaabalawi, Reem
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-28T10:36:03Z
dc.date.available2022-11-28T10:36:03Z
dc.date.issued2022-08
dc.identifier.other33.232-2022.01
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11073/25067
dc.descriptionA Master of Science thesis in Finance by Reem Zaabalawi entitled, “Fraud Risk Implications of Celebrity SPACs”, submitted in August 2022. Thesis advisor is Dr. Kimberly Gleason. Soft copy is available (Thesis, Approval Signatures, Completion Certificate, and AUS Archives Consent Form).en_US
dc.description.abstractThe 2012 Jumpstart Our Businesses Act (JOBS) was passed arguably to facilitate greater access to capital by startup firms and to lower the costs of being public in an effort to make American listings more competitive with low cost exchanges abroad, such as London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM). However, the JOBS Act established a number of exemptions for a new class of firms called Emerging Growth Act (EGC) companies, which lowered the governance and disclosure requirements. This opportunity for firms to access the public capital markets at low cost spawned a resurgence of vehicles known as Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs), whose only purpose in going public is to raise capital to do an acquisition that yields a formerly private company going public through a Reverse Takeover (RT). As all post-JOBS Act SPACs are incorporated as EGCs, they pose an additional fraud risk to the public, yet very little academic research has addressed this issue. In this thesis, I examine three research questions related specifically to celebrity SPACs. First, using a proprietary, hand collected data set consisting of Celebrity SPACs from 2015 to 2021, I examine the characteristics of post-JOBS Act Celebrity SPACs in terms of their underpricing, post IPO returns, institutional structures, and acquisition patterns. Secondly, I examine the governance characteristics of sample Celebrity SPACs. Third, I link the features of Celebrity SPACs to Fraud Diamond Theory risk factors. I anticipate that my findings will be of interest to regulators, practitioners, the academic literature on alternative investments, and to auditors.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipDepartment of Financeen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSchool of Business Administrationen_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMaster of Science in Finance (MSF)en_US
dc.subjectSpecial Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs)en_US
dc.subjectFraud Diamond Theoryen_US
dc.subjectEmerging Growth Companiesen_US
dc.subjectJumpstart Our Businesses Acten_US
dc.subjectInitial Public Offeringen_US
dc.titleFraud Risk Implications of Celebrity SPACsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US


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