We examine the underpricing and long-term performance of a broad set ofSwiss IPOs from 1983 to 2000. The average market adjusted initial return is34.97%. Our results support the ex ante uncertainty hypothesis, the signallinghypothesis and, to some extent, the market cyclicality hypothesis...

To resolve the IPO underpricing puzzle it is essential to analyze who knows what when during the issuing process. In Germany, broker-dealers make a market in IPOs during the subscription period. We examine these pre-issue prices and find that they are highly informative. They are closer to the...

Based on the implications of Rock (1986) and Beatty/Ritter (1986) this study focuses on the influence of vertical market segmentation. The analysis of 435 German IPOs from 1997-2002 shows that the empirical findings are not clear in harmony with what would be expected.

Es gibt Überlegungen, Kreditinstituten den Besitz der Anteilsmehrheit an Kapitalanlagegesellschaften(KAGs) zu untersagen. Dahinter steht die Vorstellung, daß solche Beteiligungen Gestaltungsspielräumeeröffnen, die mißbräuchlich genutzt werden. Die Neuemission von Aktienist einer der...

This paper deals with the long-run stock performance after initial public offerings (IPOs) in the German capital market with a larger sample than prior studies and alternative benchmarks (the equally and the value-weighted market portfolio, size portfolios and matching stocks).

This paper presents a theory of inititial public offerings based on the idea that the optimal ownership structure of a company changes over the life cycle of the firm. Insiders take the company public when they have lost the comparative advantage over outsiders in gathering information to...

We study the role of underwriter compensation in mitigating conflicts of interest between companies going public and their investment bankers. Making the banks compensation more sensitive to the issuers valuation should reduce agency conflicts and thus underpricing.(...)

We analyze the choice between public and private equity financing of a unique, hand-collected sample of privately held firms that have indicated their willingness to raise outside equity.(...)

This paper examines three theories of IPO underpricing, using data from Israel where the allocations to subscribers are equally prorated and publicly known. Rocks (1986) theory of adverse selection is supported: subscribers receive greater allocations in overpriced IPOs.(...)

We model an IPO company's optimal response to the presence of sentiment investors andshort sale constraints. Given regulatory constraints on price discrimination, the optimal mech-anism involves the issuer allocating stock to `regular' institutional investors for subsequentresale to sentiment...