Laurin, Claude; Boardman, Anthony E.; Vining, Aidan R. - In: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics 75 (2004) 3, pp. 399-429
The purposes of the paper are to determine whether governments underprice shares in fixed-price share-issue privatizations (SIPs) and, if so, what their motivations are for doing so. This paper develops three models of SIP underpricing: one based on revenue goals, one based on political goals...