chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Institutional description of the venture capital industry and the IPO market -- chapter 3 Literature review and formulation of hypotheses -- chapter 4 Data and methodology -- chapter 5 The characteristics of IPO firms on KOSDAQ 1999–2001 -- chapter 6...

During the last two decades, a number of studies have documented how initial public offerings (IPOs) of equity often exhibit underpricing; such studies have also attempted to identify the reasons for this underpricing phenomenon. Utilizing information asymmetry theory and signaling theory, many...

As noted by Narula and Dunning [Narula, R., Dunning. J.H., 2000. Industrial Development, Globalization and Multinational Enterprise: New Realities for Developing Countries. Oxford Development Studies, 28, 141-167.], it has been observed that some of the more advanced developing countries, those...

This paper examines how the real option value of R&D expenditure in financial market changes as time proceeds. It examines the relations between the R&D capital and the firm value for 4 years from the time a firm increases its R&D expenditure unexpectedly. The results show that the financial...