The phenomena associated with the performance of newly listed companies has increased the interest of many researchers who have developed a vast literature on long-term underpricing and underperformance, which together with hot and cold issue markets, represent the three anomalies that have...

This study examines if the prospectus disclosure of the motives for an initial public offering (IPO) explains the longrun performance of equity issuers. It uses hand-collected data for 245 IPOs from the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), and also the Market for Alternative Investments (MAI),...

This research considers the strategies on the initial public offering of company equity at the stock exchanges in the imperfect highly volatile global capital markets with the nonlinearities. We provide the IPO definition and compare the initial listing requirements on the various markets. We...

This study tests possible sources of long-term risk-adjusted returns on initial public offerings (IPO) in Poland under the calendar-time portfolio (CTP) approach. The moment of going public still remains a puzzle in many areas. Poland’s status as an emerging market has been indisputable for...

Decline in confidence in free market mechanisms in the past decade has provoked an increase in interest in regulatory issues. This paper seeks to answer one question: Are exchange listing rules an effective screening mechanism? Using a sample of IPO firms listing on major U.S. exchanges in...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the long run stock price behavior of initial public offerings (IPOs) in Turkey. Our sample consists of 126 IPOs for the period from 1995 to 2000. We use four different methodologies to analyze the relative performance of IPOs for up to five years after...

This paper separates the amount of IPO underpricing (primary market underpricing) and overvaluation (secondary market overvaluation) from the value of an IPO’s initial return to evaluate the relative importance of these two factors and their main determinants. Using data on the IPOs of 948...

We analyze the value of investor relations (IR) strategies to IPO firms. We find that firms that are less visible and have inexperienced management tend to hire IR consultants prior to the issue date. IR consultants help create positive news coverage before an IPO event as reflected in a more...

I bring together the issues of offering price accuracy and underpricing and point out that there is a trade-off between the two. If the underwriter intends to set an unbiased offering price, and thereby minimizing the mean absolute pricing error (MAPE), skewness might induce ex ante underpricing...

This paper examines how the difference in institutional environment across various provinces in China can explain IPO underpricing in the Chinese equity market. Using Chinese IPO data from 1999 to 2007, we find strong evidence that firms located in regions with better institutional environment...