The poor stock price performance of firms conducting initial public offerings is one of the recent puzzles in financial literature. We detect this market anomaly for Spanish IPO firms and we investigate whether earnings management around the time of the offering can explain these results....

Spanish Abstract: En esta monografía se estudian las rentabilidades anormalmente bajas de las acciones en los años siguientes a su salida a bolsa. Se observa que las empresas emisoras hacen uso de la discrecionalidad contable para revelar mayores beneficios en el año de la oferta y que las...

Previous evidence has documented that equity issuers underperform in the long-run. One possible explanation is that investors have over-optimistic expectations regarding future earnings and the underperformance occurs as these expectations are corrected over time. Our central focus is to test...