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Lowry, Michelle - 2001

By investigating the entire IPO pricing process, beginning when the offering is filed, the paper contributes to the existing literature along four dimensions. First, price updates during the registration period are predictable based on firm and offer-specific characteristics known at the time...

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Initial Public Offerings : Investor Behavior and Underpricing

Shiller, Robert J. - 1988

investor behavior that might be relevant to theories of their underpricing. Respondents were asked for their perception of the … allocation process, their concern with stockbroker or underwriter reputation, their theories of IPO underpricing, and their … existing theories of IPO underpricing. and also suggesting different hypotheses. The impresario hypothesis is that underwriters …

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A Review of IPO Activity, Pricing, and Allocations

Ritter, Jay - 2002

considerable underpricing, and how IPOs perform in the long run. Our perspective on the literature is three-fold: First, we believe …

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Institutional Allocation In Initial Public Offerings : Empirical Evidence

Aggarwal, Reena - 2002

-market demand and other public information. Our evidence supports book-building theories of IPO underpricing, but suggests that …

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Eclipse of the Public Corporation or Eclipse of the Public Markets?

Doidge, Craig - 2018

Since reaching a peak in 1997, the number of listed firms in the U.S. has fallen in every year but one. During this same period, public firms have been net purchasers of $3.6 trillion of equity (in 2015 dollars) rather than net issuers. The propensity to be listed is lower across all firm size...

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Blockholder Identity, Equity Ownership Structures, and Hostile Takeovers

Gorton, Gary - 1999

We determine firms' equity ownership structures and provide a theory of hostile takeovers by distinguishing the roles of two types of blockholders: rich investors and institutional investors. We also distinguish the roles of two types of stock markets: the block market and the market with small...

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Were the Good Old Days That Good? Changes in Managerial Stock Ownership Since the Great Depression

Holderness, Clifford G. - 1998

We document that ownership by officers and directors of publicly-traded firms is on average higher today than earlier in the century. Managerial ownership rises from 13 percent for the universe of exchange-listed corporations in 1935, the earliest year for which such data exist, to 21 percent in...

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Top Executives, Turnover and Firm Performance in Germany

Kaplan, Steven N. - 1993

This paper examines executive turnover -- both for management and supervisory boards - - and its relation to firm performance in the largest companies in Germany in the 1980s. The management board turns over slowly -- at a rate of 10% per year -- implying that top executives in Germany have...

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How do CEOs see their Role? Management Philosophy and Styles in Family and Non-Family Firms

Mullins, William - 2013

Using a survey of 800 CEOs in 22 emerging economies we show that CEOs' management styles and philosophy vary with the control rights and involvement of the owning family and founder: CEOs of firms with greater family involvement have more hierarchical management, and feel more accountable to...

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Estimating the Effects of Large Shareholders Using a Geographic Instrument

Becker, Bo - 2011

Large shareholders may play an important role for firm performance and policies, but identifying this empirically presents a challenge due to the endogeneity of ownership structures. We develop and test an empirical framework which allows us to separate selection from treatment effects of large...

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