We study the effect of investment horizon clienteles on the IPO market. We start from the premise – that we support with evidence – that IPO stocks are very liquid in the after-market. Therefore, short-term investors should have a higher reservation price for them than long-term investors....

We study how the heterogeneity in investment horizons of institutional investors affects the IPO market. We document the fact that short-term investors prefer more liquid stocks than long-term investors do and that IPO stocks are very liquid in the after-market. On this premise, we argue that...

We examine the effect of the bond capital supply uncertainty of institutional investors (e.g., mutual bond funds and insurance companies) on the leverage of the firm using a novel dataset. Our main finding is that the supply uncertainty of the firm's bond investor base — measured as (i) the...