Čornanič, Aleš; Novák, Jiri - 2013
The signaling hypothesis suggests that firms have incentives to underprice their initial public offerings (IPOs) to … to an established market. Using a sample of 158 Polish IPOs from 2005 - 2009, we show that firms that underprice their … IPOs are more likely (i) to issue seasoned equity, (ii) to issue a larger portion of equity at the SEO, and (iii) to make …