A large number of newly listed firms have significant involvement in international business activity. In this paper, we examine the effect of international business activity on the pricing of initial public offerings (IPOs), post-IPO performance, and survival. In a large sample of U.S. IPOs over...

The contagion across capital markets is an important phenomenon in an increasingly integrated financial world. To investigate the contagion from the U.S., Japan, and Hong Kong to Asian emerging economies, we design a research strategy which captures fundamental interdependence among these stock...