Ang, Andrew; Gu, Li; Hochberg, Yael V. - In: Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 42 (2007) 03, pp. 565-594
Recent studies suggest that the underperformance of IPOs in the post-1970 sample may be a small sample effect or “Peso problem.” That is, IPO underperformance may result from observing too few star performers ex post than were expected ex ante. We develop a model of IPO performance that...