This paper studies how institutional characteristics of Specified Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) are related to their post-merger survival. SPACs are unique financial firms that conduct the IPO with the solely purpose to use the proceeds to acquire another private company. Paper finds...

This study utilizes prospectuses and supplementary valuation reports to investigate the relationship between underwriters' valuation and underpricing in 113 firms going public on Borsa Istanbul. It argues that underwriter discretion in the valuation is crucial to underpricing in the Turkish...

This paper reassesses two conflicting hypotheses on the valuation impacts of private placements of equity (PPEs), the monitoring/certification hypothesis and the managerial entrenchment hypothesis, by focusing on the shareholder approval, active buyer, and premium pricing features of PPEs. We...

The study examines the effect of earnings management by classification shifting on firm success, focusing on the survival of newly listed firms. We argue that shifting income-decreasing expenses from core to special items should negatively associate with future operating performance because of...

Initial public offering (IPO) flippers are investors who are initially allocated shares at the offer price and immediately resell them. Using a large sample of 2003 IPOs in China from January 1995 to December 2012, we find that on average, flipping accounts for 65.92% of total negotiable shares....

This study investigates the listing of IPOs and the delisting from the Prime Standard, the highest regulated stock exchange segment in Germany. The German Stock Exchange instituted this market segment subsequent to the high-technology new economy period in 2003. For a sample of 531 firms, we...

This article examines the financial behavior of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) that went public on Alternext during the years 2005-2013. The results show that growth SME's have a limited debt capacity before going public (IPO). We found evidence suggesting that these firms modify their...

Using hedge funds' holdings of IPO stocks, we find that stocks with abnormally high hedge fund holdings, based on stock and deal characteristics, yield abnormal returns. Moreover, hedge funds are able to sell IPO stocks in a timely fashion before long-run underperforming periods start,...

This study examines if the prospectus disclosure of the motives for an initial public offering (IPO) explains the longrun performance of equity issuers. It uses hand-collected data for 245 IPOs from the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), and also the Market for Alternative Investments (MAI),...

Using a unique data set from the Thai stock market about the so-called, ‘Turnover List (TOL)' of speculative stocks spanning the period 2004–2012, we investigate and provide new evidence on the relationship between IPOs' pricing effects and subsequent classification as speculative...