Who knows what when? : the information content of pre-IPO market prices : [Version Mai 2004]
- To resolve the IPO underpricing puzzle it is essential to analyze who knows what when during the issuing process. In Germany, broker-dealers make a market in IPOs during the subscription period. We examine these pre-issue prices and find that they are highly informative. They are closer to the first price subsequently established on the exchange than both the midpoint of the bookbuilding range and the offer price. The pre-issue prices explain a large part of the underpricing left unexplained by other variables. The results imply that information asymmetries are much lower than the observed variance of underpricing suggests.
| Author: | Gunter Löffler, Patrick F. Panther, Erik TheissenORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-18327 |
| Parent Title (English): | Universität Frankfurt am Main. Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften: [Working paper series / Finance and accounting] Working paper series, Finance & Accounting ; No. 91 |
| Series (Serial Number): | Working paper series / Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften : Finance & Accounting (91 rev.) |
| Publisher: | Univ., Fachbereich Wirtschaftswiss. |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | German |
| Year of Completion: | 2004 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2004 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2005/10/10 |
| Tag: | Initial public offerings; asymmetric information; information production; underpricing; when-issued trading; winner’s curse |
| GND Keyword: | Deutschland; Emissionskurs; Börsenzulassung; Going Public; Wertpapieremission; Wertpapierhandel; Wertpapiermarkt; Asymmetrische Information; Schätzung |
| Issue: | Version Mai 2004 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 22192518X |
| Institutes: | Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
