The distinct regulatory design of Indian IPOs permits an empirical evaluation of IPO underpricing models against those that model IPO initial returns as a consequence of overpricing. Characteristics of the Indian bookbuilding process allow us to study the timing and subscription patterns of...

While it is well documented in the literature that IPOs have been consistently underpriced on average of 15% or more over the past three decades all over the world, the recent seminal study by Purnanandam and Swaminathan (2004) report that IPOs are overvalued at the offer price relative to value...

We investigate the level of underpricing and the long-term stock market performance of financial exchange initial public offerings (IPOs) and find that, despite being more underpriced, the financial exchange IPOs significantly outperform the market indexes and a control sample of regular IPOs....