IPOs and SPACs: Recent Developments

R Huang, JR Ritter, D Zhang - Annual Review of Financial …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
After two decades of low initial public offering (IPO) activity and a number of regulatory
changes, the number of IPOs of both operating companies and special purpose acquisition …

COVID-19: Fear of pandemic and short-term IPO performance

S Mazumder, P Saha - Finance research letters, 2021 - Elsevier
This study analyzes the relationship between COVID-19 related fear and short-term IPO
performance. Though the average market-adjusted initial return of IPOs in the year 2020 is …

Media coverage and investment efficiency

X Gao, W Xu, D Li, L Xing - Journal of Empirical Finance, 2021 - Elsevier
We examine the effect of media coverage on firm-level investment efficiency. We find that
media coverage reduces under-investment but increases over-investment. The negative …

Steering the Intangible Wheel: Chief Executive Officer Effect on Corporate Cultural Change

X Li, G Chen, R Shen - Organization Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
We provide large-scale empirical evidence of how much chief executive officers (CEOs)
change corporate culture. To do this, we use employee reviews to measure corporate …

Democracy and the pricing of initial public offerings around the world

HN Duong, A Goyal, V Kallinterakis… - Journal of Financial …, 2022 - Elsevier
We find a negative relation between democracy and initial public offering (IPO) underpricing
for a sample of 23,050 IPOs across 45 countries. The effect of democracy on underpricing is …

Societal secrecy and IPO underpricing

Y Chen, ACW Chui, A Goyal… - Journal of Corporate …, 2022 - Elsevier
We examine how societal secrecy affects the underpricing of initial public offerings (IPOs).
Using a large sample of 18,304 IPOs across 38 countries, we find robust evidence that IPO …

Decrypting IPO pricing: an integrated bibliometric and content analysis approach

M Joshipura, S Mathur, H Gwalani - Managerial Finance, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose Since 2018, there has been a resurgence in initial public offering (IPO) pricing
studies. The authors aim to consolidate the knowledge and explore current dynamics …

Confucianism and IPO underpricing

H Liu, YM Chiang - Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Previous studies show culture has an impact on IPO underpricing. Can Confucianism being
a traditional culture system in China affect underpricing of Chinese IPOs? If yes, through …

Global board reforms and the pricing of IPOs

Y Chen, A Goyal, L Zolotoy - Journal of Financial and Quantitative …, 2022 - cambridge.org
We document that global board reforms are associated with a significant reduction in the
underpricing of initial public offerings (IPOs). The effect is amplified for IPOs with greater …

The influences of information demand and supply on stock price synchronicity

YF Chen, CF Lee, FL Lin - Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2023 - Springer
This study investigates how information flow affects the determinants of stock price
synchronicity, with a focus on the role of investors' information demand and supply. We …