A truthful Screening Mechanism for Improving Information Asymmetry in Initial Public Offering Transactions

Insurer Information, Insiders and Initial Public Offering

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A Managerial Motive for Initial Public Offering Underpricing

The Alternative to an Initial Public Offering

For over a year, the market for initial public offerings (IPO) for promising private companies has been slow. In 2007, there were just 234 IPOs, down from a decade high of 486 in 1999. As a result, private companies and their investors (including venture capital and private equity backed companies) have been left without a crucial exit strategy. More importantly, these private companies that mi...

The initial public offering from a tripartite point of view

Existing literature on initial public offerings of a firm’s stock has taken into analysis only two parties of the issuer, the underwriter, the informed investor, either by neglecting one party for simplification or uniting it with another one as if they pursue the unique interests by forming a coalition. In point of fact, the issuer, the underwriter, the informed investors are separate entities...

Ownership Concentration and Initial Public Offering Performance: Evidence from Thailand

This study examines the relation between ownership concentration and performance of initial public offerings (IPOs) in Thailand during 1989-1993. Ownership concentration plays a crucial role in emerging capital markets such as Thailand and can significantly affect IPO performance. Several testable hypotheses are constructed from the IPO literature to examine short-term and long-term IPO perform...

The Determinants of Board Structure at the Initial Public Offering*

This paper describes board size and composition and investigates the role of venture capital in a sample of 1,116 firms’ initial public offerings. First, firms backed by venture capital have fewer insider and instrumental directors and more independent outsiders. Second, we consider board composition as the outcome of a bargain between the CEO and outside shareholders. Representation of indepen...