The Underpricing of Insurance IPOs
"The previous literature documents that insurance initial public offerings (IPOs) are less underpriced than those of noninsurance firms. This difference is usually attributed to lower information asymmetry for regulated firms. However, we find that once one controls for the file price adjustment insurance IPOs, both stock and mutual, are no less underpriced than other noninsurance offerings suggesting the book-building process resolves any such information asymmetries. We also find that mutual IPOs appear more underpriced than stock insurance IPOs, but this difference is related to the differences in pre-issue managerial ownership." Copyright (c) 2009 Financial Management Association International.
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2009
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Authors: | Wang, Qiming ; Ligon, James A. |
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Financial Management. - Financial Management Association - FMA. - Vol. 38.2009, 2, p. 301-322
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Financial Management Association - FMA |
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