This study investigates whether IPO firms inflate “core” earnings through classification shifting (i.e., misclassifying core expenses as income-decreasing special items) immediately prior to IPOs. We provide initial evidence that IPO firms engage in classification shifting in the pre-IPO...

Given important market and regulatory changes over the past two decades, we re-examine the relation between IPO pricing and coverage by sell-side stock analysts. Our design builds on the well-documented finding of the partial adjustment phenomenon, in that the IPO offer price revision following...

This paper provides empirical evidence on initial public offerings (IPOs) by investigating the pricing and long-run performance of IPOs using a unique data set collected on the German capital market before World War I. Our findings indicate that underpricing of IPOs has existed, but has...

This study investigates underpricing of IPOs in Sri Lanka. On average, IPOs are underpriced by 34%. Small issues are more underpriced than large issues, and privatization issues are more underpriced than conventional issues. Investor sentiment is positively related with underpricing and affects...

This paper investigates the role of information precision in IPO pricing. The model shows that more precise information will exert more influence on the offer price. In strong support of the model, I find that the proportion of the industry return during the waiting period that is incorporated...

The theoretical literature on Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) strongly argues for the theory of ‘Information Asymmetry'. The existence of asymmetric information problem is mainly attributable to the lack of trading history for IPO firms and superior information possessed by different entities...

We analyze and compare the underpricing and buy-and-hold abnormal returns of depositary receipt equity offerings with preceding domestic seasoned equity offerings of the same firms to identify differences and motivations for cross-listings and domestic equity offerings free of any matching bias....

When the market undergoes a learning process about a new issue, it takes time for the aggregate demand to converge to the equilibrium consistent with the stock's underlying fundamentals. As a result, the early market demand can deviate significantly from the sustainable demand. This problem...

The signaling hypothesis suggests that firms have incentives to underprice their initial public offerings (IPOs) to signal their quality to the outside investors and to issue seasoned equity (SEO) at more favorable terms. While the initial empirical evidence on the signaling hypothesis was weak,...

The underpricing of initial public offerings (IPOs) is a deeply investigated phenomenon, commonly explained with asymmetric information and risk. Ellul and Pagano (2006) first linked the underpricing with liquidity proxies like liquidity risk and effective spread. In this paper I propose a...