BACKGROUND There is no standard palliative care outcome measure for people with progressive long term neurological conditions (LTNC). This study aims to determine the psychometric properties of a new 8-item palliative care outcome scale of symptom burden (IPOS Neuro-S8) in this population. DATA AND METHODS Data were merged from a Phase II palliative care intervention study in multiple scleros...

This study examines the role of pre-IPO discretionary accruals in the valuation and first day initial returns of IPOs. We find that IPO offer price is unaffected whereas market closing price is positively associated with the levels of pre-IPO discretionary accruals for issuers with aggressively reported earnings. We also find that this relative over-valuation of managed earnings by the markets ...

Finance and investing is the second most frequent business area of neural networks applications after production/operations. Although many research results show that neural networks can solve almost all problems more efficiently than traditional modeling and statistical methods, there are opposite research results showing that statistical methods in particular data samples outperform neural net...

We investigate the decisions of listed firms to go private once again. We start by revealing that while a significant number of firms which go public is VC-backed, an overproportional share of these VC-backed firms go private later on (they stay on the exchange for an average of 8.5 years). We interpret this very robust pattern such that IPOs of VC-backed firms are to a large extent a temporary...

The large number of initial public o!erings (IPOs) with a 7% spread suggests either that investment bankers collude to pro"t from 7% IPOs or that the 7% contract is an e$cient innovation that better suits the IPO. My tests do not support the collusion theory. Low concentration and ease of entry characterize the IPO market. Moreover, the 7% spread is not abnormally pro"table, nor has its use bee...

This paper investigates both theoretically and empirically the impact of market structure on price discovery process at opening trading IPOs. Some papers suggest that IPO value uncertainty is not fully resolved offering but continues into aftermarket. Our model predicts this ex-post uncertainty, i.e. residual about firm in aftermarket, related to level fragmentation further consolidated markets...

This paper empirically analyzes the initial and after-market returns for the Turkish initial public offerings (IPOs) to provide an emerging market case of international evidence on performances of IPOs. The sample consists of 163 firms listed and traded on the Istanbul Stock Exchange during the period of 1990–1996. The results show that the Turkish IPOs are underpriced on initial trading day on...

in this research, we investigate the influence of profit management on the long-term performance of ipos in tehran stock exchange. the ipos in 1378 to 1384 are used as our sample and their long-term return in a three-year period after the ipo are calculated. we start calculating the return from the first day after the month in which the financial statement of ipo is published. discretionary cur...

paper studies the impact of the liquidity, underpricing and ownership up on both the short term and long term performance of the initial public offer (ipo) stocks in the equity markets of india. empirical analysis is undertaken to study the impact of liquidity, underpricing and ownership on performance of ipo stocks. multiple regression analysis is undertaken for analyzing the impact. it is fou...