We investigate the operating performance changes of initial public offerings (IPOs) and the relation between operating performance and both short-run underpricing and long-run market returns of IPOs. We find that listing causes a significant deterioration in profitability, sales-growth rates,...

We study the short-run and long-run performance of Chinese privatization initial public offerings (PIPOs), using data for 340 and 409 new issues on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges respectively, from 1 January 1996 through 31 December 1997. The average market-adjusted initial return is...

We study the short-run and long-run performance of 340 and 409 IPOs, respectively, listed on China's two exchanges from 1996 to 1997. We find that the average underpricing is 127.3%, and that the average market-adjusted cumulative return and buy-and-hold return over the three years after listing...

We study the short-run performance of Chinese privatization initial public offerings (PIPOs), using data on 668 new issues on both the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges from 1 January 1996 to 31 December 2000. We find that the average market-adjusted initial returns on the 1st, 5th, 10th,...

We study the short-run and long-run performance of Chinese privatization initial public offerings (PIPOs), using data for 340 and 409 new issues on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges respectively, from 1 January 1996 through 31 December 1997. The average market-adjusted initial return is...