The cost of fragmentation: lessons from initial public offerings*

Explaining Mispricing of Initial Public Offerings

This study examines the relative importance of underpricing as a signal of firm value, underwriter certification, subscription levels of shares on offer, and uncertainty surrounding firm value on mispricing of initial public offerings. A sample of 100 Singaporean initial public offerings (IPOs) during the period 1998-2000 indicates that subscription levels of shares on offer have the most signi...

Ownership Structure and Initial Public Offerings

The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expresse...

Security Design in Initial Public Offerings

We investigate an IPO security design problem when information asymmetries across investors lead to a winner’s curse. Firms that are riskier in down markets can lower the cost of going public by using unit IPOs, in which equity and warrants are combined into a non-divisible package. Furthermore, firms that have a sizeable growth potential even in bad states of the world can fully eliminate the ...

Underwriter Manipulation in Initial Public Offerings

We provide a new explanation for the extremely high level of initial public offering (IPO) underpricing during the Internet bubble years of the late 1990s based on the allocation practices of underwriters. By requiring their customers to buy the stock in the aftermarket in return for IPO allocations (a tie-in agreement), the underwriters created artificial excess demand for the IPOs, leading to...

Initial public offerings , subsequent seasoned equity offerings , and long - run performance : Evidence from IPOs in Germany