Information Risk and Long-Run Performance of Initial Public Offerings

• Main Author: Ecker, Frank (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Gabler, 2009.
• Subjects: Finance.; Public finance.; Economics.; Public Economics.; Finance, general.

There has been an extensive debate in financial economics research on long-term abnormal stock returns following firms’ initial public offerings (IPOs). So far, the discussion has concentrated on long-term underperformance. Frank Ecker examines the performance of U.S. IPOs from 1980 to 2002. He link...

Table of Contents:

• and Motivation
• Valuation under Information Risk
• Derivation of a Returns-Based Measure of Information Quality
• Abnormal Returns Measurement and Hypotheses Development
• Tests with Abnormal Portfolio Returns
• Robustness Tests
• Concluding Remarks.