In the wake of the dot.com collapse, investor sentiment toward initial public offerings (IPOs) has turned negative. To many investors, IPOs have come to symbolize the insider abuses and stock market excesses of the Internet bubble period; to others, investing in IPOs is inherently fraught with danger. This paper asks the question, Have IPOs indeed become more perilous to the investing public ov...

E ciency in the IPO (Initial Public O ering) aftermarket is tested without imposing any restrictions on the priors about potential default at the issue date. Merging Ritter's extended dataset (which covers the period 1975-84) with the CRSP tapes, IPOs are followed up to ten years after issue. Across all IPOs, or when stratifying IPOs according to issue underpricing, industry a liation or rank o...

We investigate the price performance of initial public o erings (IPOs) of formally state-owned companies in Australia. On average, privatised IPOs in Australia are underpriced by about 11%, which is not signi cantly di erent from the magnitude of underpricing of the privately-owned IPOs. This percentage is also similar to that of privatised share o erings in other OECD countries. In addition, c...

This paper examines the longer-term performance of IPOs from the expiration of the stabilization period to three years after the IPO. It seeks to determine whether employee stock options (ESOs) affect long-term market-adjusted performance after controlling for other influential factors previously uncovered in the IPO and compensation literature, such as executive cash compensation, profitabilit...

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the pricing of initial public offerings (IPOs) of mining firms in Australia. Based on a sample of 130 mining IPOs issued during the period 1979 to 1990, the results show an average underpricing of 107.18%, significantly higher than that previously documented for industrial firms. An examination of the data shows that the delay between prospectus regi...

Anchor Investors in IPOs In July 2009, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) permitted a version of bookbuilding in which IPO managers solicit bids from and allocate allocations to anchor investors in the IPO pre-market, subject to disclosure of the price, quantity, and identity of anchors participating in the pre-market bookbuilding. We obtain share allocation data in anchor IPOs. ...

The first decade of the e-commerce era saw an increase in activity in the software development industries as new firms were created and existing firms made acquisitions. Many firms pursued a growth strategy and this growth required capital that was often obtained through an initial public offering (IPO) of equity. Software firm cost structures are very different from traditional physical goods ...

Competition between investment banks for lead underwriter mandates in IPOs is fierce, but having committed to a particular bank, the power of the issuer is greatly reduced. Although information revelation theories justify giving the underwriters influence over pricing and allocation, this creates the potential for conflicts of interest. In this clinical paper we analyse an interesting innovatio...

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...

Patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) have symptoms and concerns which are inadequately addressed. Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) can potentially improve the identification and management of advanced symptoms and palliative concerns. However, these have not been used in CHF. OBJECTIVES To examine the feasibility and acceptability of using a PROM-the Integrated Palliative care O...