The phenomena associated with the performance of newly listed companies has increased the interest of many researchers who have developed a vast literature on long-term underpricing and underperformance, which together with hot and cold issue markets, represent the three anomalies that have...

In this paper, we first document evidence of underreaction to management forecast news. We then hypothesize that the credibility of the forecast influences the magnitude of this underreaction. Relying on evidence that more credible forecasts are associated with a larger reaction in the short...

We use price pressure resulting from purchases by mutual funds with large capital inflows to identify overvalued equity. This is a relatively exogenous overvaluation indicator as it is associated with who is buying, buyers with excess liquidity, rather than what is being purchased. We document...

We assess returns and risks to private equity investors from 35 countries for the time interval of 1996-2008. We find that returns to private equity (measured as return on book equity (ROE)) are significantly higher than ROEs to publicly traded equity. Using customary measures to adjust for...

This paper investigates whether individual venture capitalists have repeatable investment skill and to what extent their skill is impacted by the VC firm where they work. We examine a unique dataset that tracks the performance of individual venture capitalists' investments across time and as...

Do managers exercise accounting discretion in an opportunistic or efficient manner? Good governance structures, which mitigate agency costs, are necessary to ensure that the accounting information supplied by management is not opportunistically manipulated. The output of quality accounting...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the long run stock price behavior of initial public offerings (IPOs) in Turkey. Our sample consists of 126 IPOs for the period from 1995 to 2000. We use four different methodologies to analyze the relative performance of IPOs for up to five years after...

Most asset prices are subject to significant volatility. Arrival of new information is viewed as the main source of volatility. As new information is continually released, financial asset prices exhibit volatility persistence, which affects financial risk analysis and risk management strategies....

The analysis of factors which have the strongest influence on rating can contribute to the higher information availability of market participants, and it enables to react on changes and new information sooner and independently from rating agencies. The paper presents an estimation of corporate...

The causality relationships and cumulative impacts of the lags of earnings and the lags of capital expenditure on subsequent annual stock returns is examined using 40 different countries. The results suggest that there is a granger causality relationship from earnings to returns. Furthermore,...