This paper examines the German IPO pricing process which combines bookbuilding with a liquid pre-IPO when-issued market … bookbuilding provides information for IPO pricing, beyond the information that is required to set preliminary price ranges. Once …, the evidence suggests that such trading does not fully supplant information gathering through bookbuilding. …

We develop a model that allows for the coexistence of bookbuilding and when-issued trading. We show that, due to …-issued trading may interfere with information gathering thorough bookbuilding, in the case that informative bookbuilding is not … needed. However, informative bookbuilding may be a prerequisite for the when-issued market to function. In this case the …

Background: Compared with the fixed-price mechanism, the bookbuilding mechanism has not changed the Chinese IPO high … using either fixed-price or bookbuilding mechanisms, but when the investors’ heterogeneity expectation is the same, lower … IPO underpricing can be obtained by the issuing of bookbuilding compared with that of fixed price. Secondly, the IPO …

We provide a model of bookbuilding in IPOs, in which the issuer can choose to ration shares. We consider two allocation …