Corporate Financing on Capital Markets: Evolution or Revolution?

The Desjardins Centre for Innovation in Business Finance at the John Molson School of Business is co-organizing a seminar with CIRANO to address the following questions:

• What are the issues arising from the migration from public to private capital markets for corporate financing?
• What are the implications for long-term value and wealth creation as firms increasingly resort to private capital markets over public capital markets?
• What are the other trends underlying the evolution of capital markets and what impact will they have on firms, their owners, investors at large and governments?
• Do stock markets still have a role to play in financing new businesses? Under what conditions?
• Toward what kind of corporate financing model are we moving toward?