# Professor Alexander Ljungqvist's research on public companies and investments is highlighted

1 Faculty News August 31, 2017 ![IR Magazine logo 192 x 144](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/irmagazine192x144.jpg?itok=2LtuLcAy)>

Excerpt from [IR Magazine](https://www.irmagazine.com/articles/stock-exchanges-listings/22288/reviving-us-ipo-market/) -- "The number of listed companies in the US hit a peak of 7,428 in 1996. In 2015 that figure had fallen to 3,754, according to data from [Alexander Ljungqvist](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/alexander-ljungqvist), director of the Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions at NYU Stern."

[Read more](https://www.irmagazine.com/articles/stock-exchanges-listings/22288/reviving-us-ipo-market/)