It has been proven by Ljungqvist and Wilhelm (2002) that constraints on underwriters' allocation discretion reduce price revisions. The dual-tranche bookbuilding in Taiwan and Hong Kong imposes more regulations limiting underwriters than U.S. bookbuilding does, but price revisions of Taiwan and...

With the still presence of underreaction to earnings announcements, the Taiwan stock market provides an ideal setting to examine the market response to the announced earnings news. This paper extends the rationale of investors’ differential sophistication and attention allocation by estimating...

Initial public offerings (IPOs) are typically offered at prices lower than the transaction price in the early aftermarket. With a stochastic frontier model, we measured the fair offer price of an IPO and then the deliberate IPO underpricing and the market misvaluation based on the estimated fair...

It has been well recognized that to thoroughly evaluate a firm’s performance, the evaluator must assess not only its past and present records but also future potential. However, to the best of our knowledge, there are no data envelopment analysis (DEA)-type models proposed in the literature...

The information environment and investor order strategy are both important determinants when comparing the market performance of trading mechanisms. However, less is known about what happens when trading mechanisms are compared. In this paper, we link the information environment, trading...