Baake, Pio; Oechssler, Jorg - In: Public Choice 108 (2001) 3-4, pp. 207-22
In several recent initial public offerings in privatization cases shares seemed to be severely underpriced. In this paper we provide a political economy explanation for this apparent underpricing. Using a variant of Grossmann and Helpmann's (1996) model of special interest politics, we...