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Airbnb and Uber, among others, have strong incentives to push back against laws and regulations with asymmetric costs and benefits.
Despite rising stock prices in 2016, it was a down year for the number and dollar-volume of IPOs, and a decline in the number of U.S.-listed public companies. The Wall Street Journal is concerned about the causes and effects of the IPO slump.