Using data from Indian IPOs issued in a mechanism which is far more transparent than the bookbuilding in the US and in most other markets, the paper examines retail investors' participation, their influence on IPO pricing and the returns they make on IPO investment. The transparency in the...

Concerns about the negative consequences of the excessive underpricing of the current arrangement in the initial public offering (IPO) market for the provision of entrepreneurial finance-book building-have led to research into the viability of auctions for IPO pricing and allocation. IPO firms...