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returns, within the context of theories of bookbuilding. Using a sample of both US and international IPOs we find evidence of …
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By 1999, close to 80% of non-US IPOs were marketed using bookbuilding methods. We study whether the recent introduction … information on 2,051 initial public offerings in 61 non-US markets during the period 1992-1999. The direct costs of bookbuilding … are typically twice as large as direct costs for fixed-price offers. However, bookbuilding leads to substantially less …
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Under the bookbuilding procedure, an investment banker solicits bids for shares from institutional investors prior to … results support the winner's curse theories and the justifications for the use of bookbuilding. …
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When using a formal bookbuilding procedure, underwriters observe the demand curves of investors as stated in the ‘book …
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-rata allocations and higher average profits. We find that a very small proportion of all bids submitted during the bookbuilding contain …
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This Paper documents the aggregate trends in the foreign listings of companies and analyses both their distinctive pre-listing characteristics and their post-listing performance relative to other companies. In the 1986-97 interval, many European companies listed abroad, but did so mainly on US...
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Our model of the initial public offering process links the three main empirical IPO ‘anomalies’ – underpricing, hot issue markets, and long-run underperformance – and traces them to a common source of inefficiency. We relate hot IPO markets (such as the 1999/2000 market for Internet...
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IPO initial returns reached astronomical levels during 1999-2000. We show that the regime shift in initial returns and other elements of pricing behaviour can be at least partially accounted for by a variety of marked changes in pre-IPO ownership structure and insider selling behaviour over the...
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When a firm makes an initial public offering (IPO) of its equity, the accuracy with which its shares are priced will be an important factor determining the cost of "going public". This paper compares the accuracy of IPO pricing in the United States, United Kingdom and Japan over the period...
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Despite the increasing integration of capital markets, geography has not yet become irrelevant to finance. Between 1986 and 1997, European public companies have increasingly listed abroad, especially in the US. We relate the cross-listing decisions to the characteristics of the destination...
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