Succesful Initital Public Offerings of Venture Capital Investments are a major requirement of an efficient Private Equity Market in a well-oiled national economy. IPO as an adequate way of an investment exit is one of the most important alternatives for leaving an investment to reinvest in new...

The success of trading strategies that lead to abnormal excess returns based on annual/monthly investment periods has recently declined significantly. We adopt the original frameworks of De Bondt and Thaler (J Finance 40(3):793–808, 1985) and Jegadeesh and Titman (J Finance 48(1):65–91,...