Moving into and out of a financial and banking crisis is likely to be associated with spillover effects from the banking sector to the corporate sector. We investigate whether and how government interventions in the U.S. banking sector influence the stock market performance of corporate...

This chapter investigates the relevance of accounting and other information to valuing Internet IPOs during the years 1998–2000 in Europe and the United States. We show that market value is negatively related to net income in the Internet bubble period before April 1, 2000 in both European and...

In this chapter we investigate whether the pricing of IPOs on Europe’s new stock market differs from that of IPOs on main market segments. We report a 22.3 percentage point difference in the average first-day return of new market IPOs (34.3%) and the average first-day return of main market...