We study the role of underwriter compensation in mitigating conflicts of interest between companies going public and their investment bankers. Making the bank’s compensation more sensitive to the issuer’s valuation should reduce agency conflicts and thus underpricing. Consistent with this prediction, we show that contracting on higher commissions in U.K. IPOs leads to significantly lower underp...

We investigate the long-standing puzzle on the underpricings of convertible bonds. We hypothesize that the observed underpricing is induced by the possibility that a convertible bond might renegotiate on some of its covenants, e.g., an imbedded put option, in financial difficulties. Consistent with our hypothesis, we find that the initial underpricing is larger for lower rated bonds. The underp...

The market for unseasoned equity has the unusual and distinguishing feature of periods of concentrated activity in terms of both volume and underpricing. This paper formally documents the existence of such periods using a regime-switching model that dates transitions between hot and cold states. A number of hot periods are identified over a 20-year period using a variety of IPO activity measure...

The central question surrounding the IPO underpricing puzzle is why issuers are willing to sell their shares at a price that is less than what the market is willing to pay. This paper shows that a major reason why managers are willing to underprice shares at IPO is that they use options and stock grants to protect themselves from the dilution to their existing shares. Underpricing can have a la...

Abstract This paper aims to analyse the impact of firms’ corporate governance characteristics on degree first-day returns (i.e., underpricing) in Italian initial public offering (IPO) market. In particular, this work investigates impacts boards directors (BoDs) and ownership structure underpricing newly offered shares. By studying a sample 128 IPOs between 2000 2016, it is concluded that affect...

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...

Fenomena underpricing di Pasar Modal disebabkan oleh informasi yang asimetri. Adanya asimetri merupakan permasalahan sering muncul pada kegiatan IPO berupa distribusi tidak merata antara emiten, underwriter dan investor.Penelitian ini menguji pengaruh CEO specialist, dewan komisaris wanita ownership concentration terhadap dengan variabel moderasi reputasi underwriter. Penelitian menggunakan sam...

This paper explains why the evidence on the relation between litigation risk and initial public offering (IPO) underpricing is mixed. Two reasons are behind the nonstationary relation. First, the increasing usage of Directors and Officers’ liability insurance arguably reduces the need to use underpricing to insure against litigation liability to a limited extent. Second, class action lawsuits o...

The existence of "underpricing" has been established by a number of empirical studies in the case of common stock initial public offerings (CSIPOs). The after-market prices of such common stocks have consistently been found to be higher than their corresponding offering prices. However, these papers appear to have concentrated on examining the underpricing in the case of CSIPOs as a whole even ...

This paper uses evidence from a dataset of 27 European IPOs to analyse how investors bid and the factors that influence their allocations. We also make use of a unique ranking of investor quality, associated with the likelihood of flipping the IPO. We find that investors perceived to be long-term holders of the stock are consistently favored in allocation and in out-turn profits. In contrast to...