Rossovski, Jacqueline; Lucey, Brian M.; Helbing, Pia - 2022
This paper outlines hitherto under-researched phenomenon of negative first-day returns on common stock offerings-IPO. Using a comprehensive sample of firms that listed on major U.S. stock exchanges between 2000 and 2020, we find that 21.61% of all IPO firms have negative first-day returns,...