This paper examines the effect of Venture Capital (VC) reputation on the survival profile of U.S. Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) firms for the 1985-2005 period. To do so, we construct a VC quality index and develop multinomial logit models based on the information contained in the prospectus....

Initial public offering (IPO) flippers are investors who are initially allocated shares at the offer price and immediately resell them. Using a large sample of 2003 IPOs in China from January 1995 to December 2012, we find that on average, flipping accounts for 65.92% of total negotiable shares....