This paper empirically examines the impact of earnings management and investor sentiment on IPO anomalies using a sample of 506 Chinese IPOs issued over the 1998–2003 period. We develop a parsimonious pricing model in which both the offer price and the short-term aftermarket price are...

We examine the association between IPO underpricing and investor participation using a unique sample of 411 Chinese IPOs where the offer price is not influenced by the issuers and underwriters, and allocation to subscribers is by a lottery mechanism. We find that investor participation does not...

This is the first study of Rock's (1986) winner's curse hypothesis in which over-subscribed IPOs are allocated by a pure lottery mechanism. It employs a unique dataset of 562 Chinese IPOs 1996-2001 which provides information for the estimation of allocation-weighted returns. The results provide...

This study indirectly addresses the issue of potential nonlinearities in real exchange rate adjustment for 18 OECD economies 1973-1998 using recent developments in the theory of nonparametric cointegration. While the standard Johansen tests yield mixed evidence, the results from a new...

Using threshold autoregressive specifications, this paper develops new parametric tests for level asymmetries. It proposes bootstrap likelihood ratio statistics to test the symmetric adjustment null against sign and amplitude asymmetries or a combination of both. Monte Carlo simulations show...