The Pricing and Performance of Supercharged IPOs
研究了一种新型IPO（超级充电IPO），其通过交易提升资产税基，产生巨额递延税资产，但需未来业绩强劲才能实现税收利益。发现这类IPO定价更高、未来表现更强。
ABSTRACT This study examines a new form of initial public offerings, “supercharged” IPOs, where a firm-organized pre-IPO as a pass-through entity undergoes a series of transactions that steps-up the adjusted tax basis of the IPO firm's assets. This step-up imposes tax liabilities on pre-IPO owners, but also creates significant future tax benefits for the firm; the average anticipated deferred tax asset is $486 million ($13 per share) for our sample of supercharged IPO firms. Pursuant to tax receivable agreements, supercharged IPO firms pay a large portion of these tax benefits to pre-IPO owners as they are realized in the future. Future firm performance must be sufficiently strong for the IPO firm and the pre-IPO owners to realize the future tax benefits created by the supercharged transaction structure. We hypothesize and provide evidence of higher IPO offer prices and stronger future performance for supercharged IPO firms relative to traditional IPO firms. JEL Classifications: G14; G32; G34; H25.