Essays on Initial Public Offerings
Essays on Initial Public Offerings

Author: Hugh Monte Joseph Colaco

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Published: 2006

Total Pages: 109

ISBN-13: 9781109878288

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In the second essay, it is argued that the time following an amendment in which demand is revealed has a cost. So, why do some firms take longer than others to go public following the amendment? It is hypothesized that the delay to the offer results from overestimation of demand and risk. As a result, underpricing predicted at the amendment is not indicative of the final level of underpricing. The firm and its investors bear the costs of the delay. This study highlights the distinction between partial and full information and the costs associated with SEC requirements.

Essays on Initial Public Offerings (IPOs).
Essays on Initial Public Offerings (IPOs).

Author: Yan Gao

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Published: 2002

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There is some theoretical [Miller (1976)] and empirical [Diether, Molloy, and Scherbina (2002)] evidence in the literature that when investors disagree about he value of a stock the market price is likely to reflect the more optimistic view for less liquid stocks where short selling may be more costly. In the third chapter I show that this is true in the case of IPOs as well. I conjecture that issues that are relatively less liquid will exhibit more non-fundamental volatility. I measure non-fundamental volatility using cross-sectional and time-series regression methods suggested by Amihud and Mendelson (1987) and Damadaran (1993). I find that stocks with more non-fundamental volatility under-perform otherwise similar stocks in the long run (one to three years).