We report a fundamental error in Datastream equity data for share prices and return indices relating to a failure to make any capital adjustments for UK open offers before February 2002. We re-examine the findings of Iqbal, Espenlaub, and Strong (2008), correcting for this error. We find that...

We examine the long run operating and stock price performance of UK open offer firms in the context of the earnings management hypothesis. We find that in the pre-offer period offer firms report significant improvements in their operating performance unrelated to cash flow performance. Results...

This paper investigates the long-term stock price performance of initial public offering (IPO) firms in the United Kingdom that were previously owned by leveraged buyout (LBO) funds. A sample of 128 LBO-backed IPOs and 1,121 non-LBO-backed IPOs between 1990 and 2006 is analysed for the long-term...

Modeling of financial markets volatility is one of the most significant issues of contemporary finance, especially while analyzing high-frequency data. Accurate quantification and forecast of volatility are of immense importance in risk management (VaR models, stress testing and worst case...

Which investor class causes stock price anomalies? Are individual investors responsible for prices that deviate from fundamental value? We address these questions in the context of a specific anomaly, that of stock price 'bubbles.' Using data from the Australian Stock Exchange Clearinghouse...

This paper investigates the effects of ownership concentration, foreign ownership and audit quality on the amount of firm-specific information incorporated into share prices (as measured by stock price synchronicity). With a large sample of firms listed on the emerging Chinese market over the...

The research target is to explore the relation between the fundamental performance and the market pricing for SME which have floated in the Italian stock market in the period 1994 - 2000. The fundamental performance is defined as the degree of consistency between the financial results obtained...

This study evaluates the implications of three of the extant IPO models relating underpricing and aftermarket liquidity. Using hand collected data from a sample of bookbuilt Hong Kong IPOs, this study tests the predictions of the aforementioned models by evaluating not only the direction and...

The agency problems for initial public offerings are well documented in the literature. The objective of this research is to investigate the potential conflicts of interest for the Neuer Markt in Germany. Of special interest are venture-backed IPOs and those in which banks acted as venture...

Rights offerings in Australia provide valuable choices to the issuer in terms of both underwriting and renounceability. We formulate a set of hypotheses from a quality-signalling perspective, affording an analysis of the key interrelations between quality, underwriting status, renounceability,...