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title: Public Firms Transformation
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4831105/
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 4831105
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4831105
featured: 2024-05-22
citations: unknown
topic: Corporate Finance
---


# Public Firms Transformation

The number of public firms in the US has decreased by half since the 21st century due to heavy legal burdens, but their economic influence remains the same.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4831105
- Identifier: SSRN 4831105
- Released: 2024-05-16
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 50 (2024-05-22): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-05-22/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Corporate Finance

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