This article examines the factors that determine IPO success in raising equity capital, and how this success translates into investor success. The study is based on a sample of IPOs on the Warsaw Stock Exchange from 1998 to 2011. We find that pre-IPO profitability is a strong and positive signal...

On May 18, 2012 Facebook held its initial public offering (IPO), raising over $16 billion making it one of the largest IPOs in history. To the surprise of many investors, there was no underpricing ― the stock closed the first day of trading flat from its offer price. The Facebook IPO was...

This paper estimates the short-run performance of IPOs issued on the Karachi Stock Exchange in Pakistan. The present study extends the existing literature concentrating on the degree of underpricing over a 3-month period lasting from the listing date to the 3-month anniversary showing...

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....

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...

Mispricing of initial public offerings (IPO) in finance literatures refers to the deviation of IPOs offer price from its aftermarket price. Miller (1977) argue that divergence of opinion provide alternative explanation for IPO mispricing where high divergence of investors' opinion (DOP) is...

During an IPO the issuing firm experiences a dramatic visibility shock caused by a large amount of information released to the public. In this context the media play a pivotal role in conveying information to investors who mostly rely on second-hand and simplified news. We argue that the way in...

This paper attempts to analyse the information content of a qualified audit opinion on the pricing of an IPO. To minimise the effect of selection bias, we match the sample of IPOs with an audit opinion and without, based on their propensity scores. Based on classical underpricing, firms with...

This article aimed to analyse the factors that influence the level of underpricing of an initial public offering (IPO) on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE), based on the example of 101 companies debuting on the main market between 2010 and 2019. We discuss the theories that explain IPO...

This study investigates the determinants of initial public offering (IPO) underpricing by focusing on variables relating to information asymmetry, investor sentiment, and corporate governance and examines whether the determinants of IPO underpricing in high-technology and non-high-technology...