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title: Global SPACs Boom and Bust
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5030269/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 5030269
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5030269
featured: 2024-11-27
citations: unknown
topic: Corporate Finance
---


# Global SPACs Boom and Bust

An analysis of the rise and fall of special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) as an alternative to public listing reveals trends, characteristics, concerns, and returns up to 2023.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5030269
- Identifier: SSRN 5030269
- Released: 2024-11-22
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 76 (2024-11-27): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-11-27/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Corporate Finance

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