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The first issue of shares is the key moment in the life cycle of any company that was not previously listed on a stock exchange. Considering the fact that transformation into a public open joint stock company brings along a number of advantages and challenges, it would be of great importance to...
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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,...
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pre-IPO profitability is a strong and positive signal for investors that translates into a higher offer price and …
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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,...
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We employ a sample of 748 environmentally-friendly (or “green”) firms listed on U.S. stock exchanges to extend studies of the effects of socially responsible investment (SRI) on stock investment returns and the performance of initial public offerings (IPOs) and seasoned equity offerings...
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We find a negative relation between democracy and initial public offering (IPO) underpricing for a sample of 23,050 IPOs across 45 countries. The effect of democracy on underpricing is weaker for IPOs audited by Big 4 auditing firms, backed by venture capital firms, and with better disclosure...
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This paper separates the amount of IPO underpricing (primary market underpricing) and overvaluation (secondary market overvaluation) from the value of an IPO’s initial return to evaluate the relative importance of these two factors and their main determinants. Using data on the IPOs of 948...
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valuation is crucial to underpricing in the Turkish market, where fixed price is the dominant method of offering and retail …
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We analyse a regulatory change in the Japanese IPO market that created an abrupt shift from hybrid price …-discriminatory auctions to bookbuilding. We find that bookbuilding leads to significantly higher underpricing than hybrid price …-discriminatory auctions. Further, we find evidence that price accuracy tends to be higher for auctions than for bookbuilding. The results hold …
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Is there quid pro quo in auctioned IPOs - an alternative to bookbuilding in U.S. and elsewhere? Using proprietary data on uniform-pricing IPO auctions from China, we show when the share allocation rule shifted from pro rata to lottery draw (that makes quid pro quo valuable to a bidder), fund...
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