This paper examines the impact of incentive fees in mitigating conflicts of interest between the IPO firms and their underwriters. Consistent with cost minimisation hypothesis, our results show that granting incentive fees to underwriters results in lower listing costs and high IPO proceeds. We...

Using a unique dataset, we examine financial performance, and venture capital involvement in 167 MBOs exiting through IPOs in the London Stock Exchange, during the period 1964-1997. The results suggest positive and statistically significant initial premiums and positive, and statistically...

<heading id="h1" level="3" format="inline" implicit="no">Abstract: </heading>Using a unique dataset, we examine financial performance, and venture capital involvement in 167 MBOs exiting through IPOs (MBO-IPOs) on the London Stock Exchange, during the period 1964 -1997. VC backed MBOs seem to be more underpriced than MBOs without venture capital backing,...