This paper investigates whether the health of a bank affects the client firm's capital structure and then leads to inefficiency in the client firm's decision-making. Using the Japanese IPO dataset from 1996 to 2005 when bank sectors suffered liquidity shortages and IPO booms occurred at the same...

Background: When a privately owned firm or privatized government entity raises capital by selling its stocks for the first time to general public, is known as initial public offering (IPO). The underpricing phenomenon and ownership structure are important characteristics of IPO process that...