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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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Using a unique dataset of dealer-level trading data in bookbuilding IPOs, we find strong evidence that lead underwriter trades in IPO firms are significantly related to subsequent IPO abnormal returns. This relation is concentrated among issues in which underwriters' information advantage is...
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underpricing strengthens these incentives, resulting in a more informative post-IPO price and higher firm value. Firms' desires for … more informative post-IPO pricing lead to new rationales for IPO underpricing and the intermediating role of underwriters …
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codes by Member States of the European Union (EU) have affected IPO underpricing on Member State-regulated markets, where … underpricing declined on Member State-regulated markets after Member States adopted corporate governance codes containing SOX …-like provisions. We do not find a similar reduction in IPO underpricing on exchange-regulated markets. Our results are robust to …
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We investigate whether access to information prior to an IPO generates a trading advantage after the IPO. We find that limited partners (LPs) of venture capital funds obtain high returns when they invest in newly listed stocks backed by their funds. These returns are not explained by LPs'...
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This study attempts to examine the relevance of dividend policy and information asymmetry from the Signaling Perspective and compare the relative information content of them. Based on sampling, 88 firms from Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) were selected and examined during 2003 to 2010. The findings...
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This paper uses a unique dataset on daily capital ows to the Swedish bond market to analyse the relative information endowment of domestic and foreign investors. Using the standard framework of a noisy rational expectations equilibrium, it is concluded that foreign investors are on average...
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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....
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