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The signaling hypothesis suggests that firms have incentives to underprice their initial public offerings (IPOs) to signal their quality to the outside investors and to issue seasoned equity (SEO) at more favorable terms. While the initial empirical evidence on the signaling hypothesis was weak,...
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This paper analyses the efficiency of venture capital and its impact on primary equity markets in France and Germany. It shows that venture capital operates according to the signalling model in France and according to the learning model in Germany. Only the learning model can serve as a...
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instrumental variables method allows for distinguishing a direct influence of past repayment problems (a ”pure reputation” effect …, indicating that most of the influence of past repayment problems is through the reputation channel. Overall, past and predicted …
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This study examines the effect of corporate ownership on information asymmetry as measured by bid-ask spread in the emerging markets of China. Government ownership has significant and positive impacts on bid-ask spread during the period 1995-2000, but disappears afterward during 2001-2003. The...
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first time to general public, is known as initial public offering (IPO). The underpricing phenomenon and ownership structure … structor and initial underpricing for both group of IPOs. Methods: Event study methodology is used to compares short- and long … for investigating the relationship betwen underpricing and ownership structure for both group of IPOs. Results: We find …
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This paper sets out to analyze the influence of different types of venture capitalists on the performance of their portfolio firms around and after IPO. We investigate the hypothesis that different governance structures, objectives, and track records of different types of VCs have a significant...
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capitalists may use underpricing as a device for credibly committing themselves to acquiring reputation. … until the true value is revealed. We show that the dilemma may be resolved via a reputation-acquiring mechanism in a … and a high degree of price uncertainty. Furthermore, we provide a new rationale for underpricing. Young venture …
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This paper aims to analyze the impact of different types of venture capitalists on the performance of their portfolio firms around and after the IPO. We thereby investigate the hypothesis that different governance structures, objectives and track record of different types of VCs have a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298255
contributes to the underpricing literature by focusing on the complementary or rather competing role of venture capitalists and …/or underwritten by a top bank are expected to show less underpricing at the initial public offering (IPO) due to a reduced ex …
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contributes to the underpricing literature by focusing on the complementary or rather competing role of venture capitalists and …/or underwritten by a top bank are expected to show less underpricing at the initial public offering (IPO) due to a reduced ex …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317404