Investors react adversely to the announcements of rights offers in Hong Kong and the abnormal return of rights offers on the announcement day is -12.10%. After taking price discounts, underwriting fees and abnormal returns into consideration, the total direct and indirect costs of the seasoned...

No, it is not. Using sorting, cross-sectional tests, regression, and tests of a monotonic relation, we investigate the long-run post-IPO performance and its sources in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) markets. We examine over 1100 stocks from 11 CEE countries for the period 2002-2014....

This paper investigates the link between intended use of proceeds and the decline in post-issue operating performance of IPO firms. After taking into account special features of the compositional data containing zero values, a quantile regression analysis is employed for the Indonesian equity...

Previous research describes the net share issuance anomaly in U.S. stocks as pervasive, both in size-based sorts and in cross-section regressions. As a further test of its pervasiveness, this paper undertakes an in-depth study of share issuance effects in the Australian equity market. The...

Earnings management at the time of the IPO is an important issue and has captured considerable attention of academic literatures. However, there have been few studies testing earnings management in the context of market condition, and when financial intermediaries such as venture capital (VC)...

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....

Previous estimates of the mean 3-year buy-and hold abnormal returns of German IPO stocks range from -52.20% to 1.66%. It is difficult to justify this significant variation in abnormal returns, given the almost identical calculation procedures and the large overlap in sample periods. We argue...

The objective of this paper is to examine whether underpricing is associated with board structure and corporate ownership among Indonesian IPO firms. To capture the most recent development, the sample comprises 101 firms conducting initial public offerings (IPOs) in Indonesia's primary equity...

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 case presents the initial public offering of shares by a young utility in India. Students are asked to evaluate the attractiveness of investing in the company's shares from the investors' perspective and undertake a valuation analysis