Purpose - Political factors play a crucial role in China's initial public offering (IPO) market due to its distinctive institutional context (i.e. "economic decentralization" and "political centralization"). Given the significant level of IPO underpricing in China, we examine the impact of local...

Purpose Based on the textual-analyzed data covering 2148 IPO firms in China's stock market during the 2007-2018 period, the authors' purpose is to examine the influence of anti-takeover provision (ATP) adoption on initial public offerings (IPO) underpricing and identify the reducing effect of...

This study explores the impact of IPO prospectus language on the prevalent underpricing in European IPOs, using natural language processing techniques. Specifically, it investigates whether a relationship exists between litigious, negative, positive, and uncertain language, as well as the degree...

We study the impacts of regime changes and related rule implementations on IPOs’ initial return for China’s entrepreneurial boards (ChiNext and STAR). We propose that an initial return contains the issuer’s fair value and an investors’ overreaction and examine their magnitudes and...

The article examines share allocation practices of over 300 initial public offerings (IPOs) in Hong Kong during the years immediately following the enacting of a ‘Claw-Back’ provision for IPO share reallocation. The examination of exhaustive micro-level data reveals that small (uninformed,...

In an Initial Public Offering (IPO) process, it is expected that there will be different share price valuations by professionals, due to market flaws, meaning information asymmetry among investors. For stockholders - who previously formed the corporate structure of the company - an IPO opens up...

Pricing of an Initial public offering (IPO) is a complex phenomenon. Price anomalies are commonly observed in IPO markets, especially in emerging markets. Investors perceived underpricing creates undue market momentum during the offer period with an asymmetric effect across different issue...

Along with the European Union, policymakers in Turkey passed a regulation that mandated all listed companies use the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) starting from January 1, 2005. Using a before-after estimation design, this study examines the impact of this policy change and...

The effect of uncertainty on IPO underpricing, short-term performance after IPO, and hot-and-cold-IPO market cycles have received a great deal of attention in the literature. This study revisits these issues of IPO activities under the Covid-19 pandemic with a focus on the Turkish IPO market....

The present research shows the influence of institutional differences on the performance of initial public offerings (IPOs), both at the level of initial underpricing and at the level of 1-, 3- and 5-year performance. Our results represent a relevant empirical contribution to the international...

The system of central discipline inspections has become a key anti-corruption governance tool in China since 2013. This paper investigates the impact of a central discipline inspection of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) on initial public offering (IPO) underpricing. We find...

Based on many cases of publicity using social media in the market, this paper empirically examines the damage of microblog publicity to market efficiency by using the sample of IPO companies. The results show that the companies posting microblogs during the IPO publicity period have higher IPO...

The notion of green financing has generally evolved around environmental sustainability and protection. This concept needs to be investigated from the perspective of “sustainably” achieving economic targets and simultaneously protecting the globe for future generations. Building on this...

We analyze a regulatory change in the Japanese IPO market that created an abrupt shift from hybrid price-discriminatory auctions to bookbuilding. We find that bookbuilding leads to higher underpricing than hybrid price-discriminatory auctions. Furthermore, we find evidence that price accuracy...

The primary focus of this paper is to develop an empirical model to study the relationship between key Financial Performance Indicators and IPO Offer Prices. It seeks to assist Indian IPO investors to make more informed decisions by advancing their knowledge about relevant Pre-IPO Financial...

Der Klimawandel zählt zu den größten Herausforderungen, die wir derzeit als Gesellschaft zu bewältigen haben. Aber die bisherigen Maßnahmen der Politik reichen nicht aus. Die Emissionen steigen von Jahr zu Jahr und waren noch nie so hoch wie heute. Deshalb braucht es ein zuverlässiges und...

This study examines how social connections between media executives and firms affect initial public offering (IPO) pricing using manually collected Chinese data. We find media-connected firms receive more frequent and more positive coverage than their unconnected peers, resulting in reduced IPO...

Given important market and regulatory changes over the past two decades, we re-examine the relation between IPO pricing and coverage by sell-side stock analysts. Our design builds on the well-documented finding of the partial adjustment phenomenon, in that the IPO offer price revision following...

In an earlier series of articles published in this journal, one of the three authors of this article predicted the rise of auction IPOs, possibly to the point of displacing the traditional bookbuilding process for pricing and allocating IPOs, only to find himself forced to explain in later...

Using a unique data set for a large sample of institutional bids for Chinese IPOs, we study how relationships with lead underwriters impact mutual funds’ willingness to bid in the bookbuilding process. Our paper finds that strong business ties lead to higher bid prices. The effect is more...

Using hand-collected data on the signature size of managers among Chinese initial public offerings (IPOs) from 2007 to 2019 to proxy for managerial narcissism, we examine how IPOs with narcissistic managers (narcissistic IPOs) impact IPO underpricing. The findings suggest that narcissistic IPOs...

The notion of green financing has generally evolved around environmental sustainability and protection. This concept needs to be investigated from the perspective of “sustainably” achieving economic targets and simultaneously protecting the globe for future generations. Building on this...

This paper examines an innovation in capital formation that has spurred contentious debate: theUmbrella Partnership Corporation (“Up-C”) IPO. Advisors and underwriters argue that the Up-C deal structure is a driver of post-IPO value and, thus, is a value-enhancing means of raising capital...

We examine how societal secrecy affects the underpricing of initial public offerings (IPOs). Using a large sample of 18,304 IPOs across 38 countries, we find robust evidence that IPO underpricing is positively related to societal secrecy. Additional analyses reveal that investor protection,...

In response to concerns over the use of book-building as the dominant price-setting mechanisms in IPOs, regulatory bodies in the emerging markets have implemented policies to restrict discretion exercised by underwriters. This study examines the regulatory policy effect on IPO underpricing,...

Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) rules require issuers in initial public offerings (IPOs) to submit a pricing range estimate, usually weeks before IPO pricing. Using the SEC fee calculation decision as a novel proxy, this paper provides evidence that issuers pursue heterogeneous pricing...

The purpose of this research is to evaluate the effect of issuing businesses engaging reputed law firms on the extent of underpricing in developing IPO markets. The consequences of involving prestigious lawyers in underpricing IPO businesses are not really understood from a global viewpoint due...

Financial economists have intensely studied IPO underpricing using data from approximately the past four decades. This paper investigates IPO underpricing during the period 1922-1929 (1920s) using hand-collected data on first-day returns, trading volumes, and firm characteristics. Mean...