Financial economists in recent years have closely examined and intensely debated the performance of initial public offerings using data after the formation of NASDAQ. The paper seeks to shed light on this controversy by undertaking a large, out-of-sample study: we examine the performance for up...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a direct test of the small-firm uniqueness hypothesis advanced by Ang (1991). We do this by using the 5B-IPO program of the SEC as our instrument to define a small firm. Having identified small firms, we test the three IPO anomalies to see if small firms...

Als Phänomen internationaler Kapitalmärkte hat das IPO-Underpricing einen besonderen Stellenwert in der Diskussion über die Kosten eines Börsenganges. Ein Aspekt, der bei dieser Diskussion bislang weder in der Theorie noch in der Empirie Berücksichtigung findet, ist der Einfluss einer...