The Informational Content of Initial Public Offerings

The ability of capital markets to distinguish firms of different value by the size of their initial equity offerings is attenuated when insiders can sell equity more than once. A model is developed in which there is price risk from holding equity between periods. When the uncertainty is small. there must be pooling in the first period. When uncertainty is large. the pooling equilibria dominate the separating equilibrium

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Year of publication:	[2007]
Authors:	Gale, Ian L.
Other Persons:	Stiglitz, Joseph E. (contributor)
Publisher:	[2007]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Emissionsgeschäft \| Underwriting business \| Theorie \| Theory \| Börsengang \| Initial public offering \| Informationsökonomik \| Economics of information \| Informationswert \| Information value \| Eigenkapital \| Equity capital

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (17 p)
Series:	NBER Working Paper ; No. w3259
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments February 1990 erstellt
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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