This paper examines the long run performance of 438 initial public offerings in India that got listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange from 1992 to 2001. It further attempts to identify the factors explaining the long-run performance of IPO firms. The cumulative abnormal return at the end of fifth...

This paper investigates the change in post-issue operating performance of 300 Indian IPO firms over a three-year period relative to their pre-issue levels. Further, it explores, whether the issuing firms signal their value at the time of issue through underpricing and whether operating...

A number of researchers have examined the performance of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) both for short and long run. However, the empirical evidence on the survivability of issues in the aftermarket is quite scant, especially in India. In the light of huge volatility in the Indian IPO market...

Corporate governance mechanisms are being widely researched for their impact on different measures of corporate performance. Board structure being a dominant means of monitoring and governance for sustaining the competition and improving financial and overall performance, forms an integral part...

This paper examines the performance of 648 initial public offerings (IPOs) listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) from June 1992 to March 2002 over a five-year period. Voluminous research across the world suggests that IPOs unanimously witness very high returns in the short run; as opposed to...