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......Methodology
In evaluating the impact of the Act on the decisions of smaller companies
to stay private, and if already publicly-traded, take themselves private
again will be measured in this research design. The dynamics of this first
sampling frame will be measured using a stratified random sample of small
companies who fit one of four criteria: those smaller companies who have
been publicly-traded and chose to go private; those smaller companies who
have gone from being public to being sold (specifically the factors leading
to their acquisition will be explored and quantified); and finally those
smaller firms who have been private and have completed S1 filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission prior to the enactment of the Act and
have since decided to stay private. The stratified random sample for the
larger corporations will include those corporations who were public and
went private; secondly, those who were public and went through the costs of
becoming compliant with the Acts;' requirements; and third, those larger
corporations that chose to be acquired versus spend to be compliant with
the Act. Taken together, all these factors will yield a table of values
driven both by small, public, small private, small acquired companies

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