Almisher, Mohamad A.; Buell, Stephen G.; Kish, Richard J. - In: Research in finance : Vol. 19, (pp. 87-107). 2002
This study utilizer systematic risk as measured by its accounting beta to proxy IPO ex ante risk for examining the … relationship between risk and underpricing. Unlike the IPO's standard deviation for returns, the risk measure employed by Ritter … accounting beta and the subsequent degree of underpricing. Thus, our finding suggests that systematic risk, as measured by an …