Purpose This paper aims to examine the effects of political connections (PCs) on corporate
financial performance (CFP) in an emerging economy. It also investigates the moderating …

Despite developments of recent theoretical and numerous empirical studies on the policies
effectively adopted by companies, the dividend distribution policy (DDP) remains largely …

Regarding the causality nexus between the various dimensions of corporate governance
(ownership structure, dividend policy) and financial performance (return on equity, return on …

In our paper, we develop a new method for measuring underwriter reputation. Our measure
is based on the number of IPO shares requested by each underwriter in the total shares …

The paper's objective is to measure the drivers of oversubscription of Initial Public Offerings
(IPOs) in India. Data from cross-sections are used in the investigation to analyse 179 IPOs …

This paper investigates the factors that determine liquidity in the secondary market following
initial public offerings (IPOs) in Tunisia. The study examines the impact of IPO return and …

This paper empirically analyzes the short run performance of Tunisian initial public offerings
(IPO). It sheds light on the determinants of IPO's in a context of a frontier market …

This study seeks to determine the reasons behind original shareholder sales of particular
numbers of shares at the IPO date. It also examines whether share transfer behaviour …

This article tests four hypotheses (signalling, market tendency, market characteristics and
the ex ante uncertainty and information asymmetry) to explain the initial public offerings …

Purpose: The majority of studies have focused on IPO underpricing, but the deliberate price
discount as a deliberate underpricing has not been enough studied in the financial literature …