Gan, Jie; Mahoney, Paul G.; Mei, Jianping - 2022
Financial economists have intensely studied IPO underpricing using data from approximately the past four decades. This … paper investigates IPO underpricing during the period 1922-1929 (1920s) using hand-collected data on first-day returns … document that under several common measures, IPO stocks were more liquid post-offering than in later periods, providing further …