IPOs in an emerging market, Malaysia over the period of 1990 to 2008. The evidence of a significant negative relationship … between interest rate and the numbers of IPOs, and a significant positive relationship between industrial production and the … numbers of IPOs are found. A long-run equilibrium relationship between interest rate, industrial production and numbers of …

by examining the IPOs performance by the size of offerings. We find evidence that all the Malaysia IPOs are underpriced …This paper analyses the performance of all IPOs in the Malaysian stock market between 1995 to October 1997. The effects …

-day price spread. For the entire sample and for the hot issues, we find that IPOs that are highly underpriced, small in offering … disagreement is likely to create significant trading volume and result in large price spread. For cold IPOs, the results show that … IPOs listed on the MESDAQ market induce high divergence of opinions among investors. It is also shown that initial return …

regulating disclosure of management earnings forecasts. Design/methodology/approach A sample of 111 Malaysian IPOs listing on the … Main Market of Bursa Malaysia from January 1, 2004 to February 29, 2012 was used. The paper uses both univariate and … multivariate statistical analyses on this sample of IPOs. Findings The empirical results of these multivariate regressions …

) prospectuses. Design/methodology/approach The study sample comprises 190 Malaysian companies issuing IPOs that transformed into …