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Advocacy of Minority Shareholders on Shares Rights Issue of Malawian Capital Market
Kampanje, Brian Phiri - 2019
Share rights issue is one of the viable means by which public limited companies can raise additional cash at relatively low cost to steer growth or sustainably manage their debts. Minority shareholders can effectively increase equity stake in the situations where they can lobby majority...
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Book-to-Market Decomposition, Net Share Issuance, and the Cross Section of Global Stock Returns
Blackburn, Douglas W. - 2019
This paper provides global evidence supporting the hypothesis that expected return models are enhanced by the inclusion of variables that describe the evolution of book-to-market—changes in book value, changes in price, and net share issues. This conclusion is supported using data representing...
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Is the Abnormal Post-IPO Underperformance Really Abnormal? The Evidence from CEE Emerging Markets
Zaremba, Adam - 2014
No, it is not. Using sorting, cross-sectional tests, regression, and tests of a monotonic relation, we investigate the long-run post-IPO performance and its sources in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) markets. We examine over 1100 stocks from 11 CEE countries for the period 2002-2014....
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Strategies on Initial Public Offering of Company Equity at Stock Exchanges in Imperfect Highly Volatile Global Capital Markets with Induced Nonlinearities
Ledenyov, Dimitri - 2015
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...
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What Matters Most? How Tone in Initial Public Offering Filings and Pre-IPO News Influences Stock Market Returns
Feuerriegel, Stefan - 2014
Before shares of a company are sold to the general public on a security exchange for the first time, regulatory publication requirements force U.S. firms to file an initial public offering prospectus. While accounting information in IPO filings are closely studied by investors and analysts,...
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Are IPOs Really Underpriced or Overpriced : Evidence from Tehran Stock Exchange
Bagherzadeh, Saeed - 2010
While it is well documented in the literature that IPOs have been consistently underpriced on average of 15% or more over the past three decades all over the world, the recent seminal study by Purnanandam and Swaminathan (2004) report that IPOs are overvalued at the offer price relative to value...
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From the Stars to the Stock Market : Calendar Superstition and IPO Returns
Chen, Xiaoqi; Zhao, Jing - 2023
The ancient Chinese Almanac lists days that are (in)auspicious for certain actions or events. We find that the initial returns for Initial Public Offerings (IPO), an essential corporate event, are significantly lower on days listed by the Almanac as unlucky. The effect of calendar superstition...
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ESG, State Ownership, and Stock Returns : Evidence from China
Wu, Zhenshu; Shih, Yi-Cheng; Wang, Yao; Zhang, Chendi - 2022
This study shows that state ownership affects the impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activities on firm value, using data covering ESG performance of the entire cross-section of China’s stock markets. Taking the COVID-19 market crash as an exogenous shock, we find a positive...
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Performance Consequences of Privatizing Egyptian State-Owned Enterprises : The Effect of Post-Privatization Ownership Structure on Firm Performance
Omran, Mohammed - 2016
determines whether such performance differs across firms according to their new ownership structure. The Egyptian privatization … program provides unique post-privatization data on different ownership structures. Since most studies do not distinguish … between the types of ownership, this paper provides new insight into the impact that post-privatization ownership structure …
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The performance of state-owned enterprises and newly privatized firms : empirical evidence from Egypt
Omran, Mohammed Fawzy - 2002
witness any significant improvement in their performance, which questions the benefits of privatization in Egypt. …Even though it is well documented that privatization leads to an improvement in the performance of state … because it does not consider the performance of control firms of similar pre-privatization situations, i.e. the performance of …
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