We examine whether individual investors in China have the ability to acquire and process the information of industry peers. We exploit the initial earnings announcement within each industry-quarter during 2015-2017 and use the frequency of investors’ daily discussions on the Xue Qiu platform...

Online activity of Internet users has proven very useful in modeling various phenomena across wide range of scientific disciplines. In our study, we focus on two stylized facts or puzzles surrounding the initial public offerings (IPOs) - underpricing and long-term underperformance. Using the...

The underpricing of initial public offerings is a well-documented fact of empirical equity market research. Theories explain this underpricing with market imperfections. We study three empirically relevant IPO mechanisms under almost perfect market conditions in the laboratory: a stylized book...