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Underwriter Lock-up Releases, Initial Public Offerings and After-Market Performance

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  • Keasler, Terrill R

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The lock-up agreement between an underwriter and an issuing firm's principals prohibits sale of securities for a period of time following the offering date. Investment banks must support the stock following an offering. The lock-up assures investors that the restricted shares will not enter the market, at least for a period of time. Negative abnormal returns prior to the lock-up release show that unrestricted investors liquidate positions prior to the scheduled lock-up release. Negative abnormal returns are more robust for firms that are not influenced by SEC Rule 144 than for firms that are. Copyright 2001 by MIT Press.

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  • Keasler, Terrill R, 2001. "Underwriter Lock-up Releases, Initial Public Offerings and After-Market Performance," The Financial Review, Eastern Finance Association, vol. 36(2), pages 1-20, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:finrev:v:36:y:2001:i:2:p:1-20
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    1. Tykvová, Tereza, 2003. "The role of the value added by the venture capitalists in timing and extent of IPOs," CFS Working Paper Series 2003/25, Center for Financial Studies (CFS).
    2. Terrill Keasler, 2001. "The underwriter’s early lock-up release: Empirical evidence," Journal of Economics and Finance, Springer;Academy of Economics and Finance, vol. 25(2), pages 214-228, June.
    3. Rohini Mahajan & Balwinder Singh, 2011. "Impact of Lock-in Period Expiration on Share Prices and Volume: An Empirical Study," Management and Labour Studies, XLRI Jamshedpur, School of Business Management & Human Resources, vol. 36(2), pages 155-174, May.
    4. Geczy, Christopher C. & Musto, David K. & Reed, Adam V., 2002. "Stocks are special too: an analysis of the equity lending market," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 66(2-3), pages 241-269.
    5. Richard Robinson & Mary Robinson & Chien-Chih Peng, 2004. "Underpricing and IPO ownership retention," Journal of Economics and Finance, Springer;Academy of Economics and Finance, vol. 28(1), pages 132-146, March.
    6. Dmitri Boreiko & Stefano Lombardo, 2013. "Lockup clauses in Italian IPOs," Applied Financial Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(3), pages 221-232, February.
    7. Moritz T. Bruckner & Dennis M. Steininger & Jason Bennett Thatcher & Daniel J. Veit, 2023. "The effect of lockup and persuasion on online investment decisions: An experimental study in ICOs," Electronic Markets, Springer;IIM University of St. Gallen, vol. 33(1), pages 1-25, December.
    8. Marcus Schulmerich & Yves-Michel Leporcher & Ching-Hwa Eu, 2015. "Stock Market Anomalies," Management for Professionals, in: Applied Asset and Risk Management, edition 127, chapter 3, pages 175-244, Springer.
    9. Beng Soon Chong & Zhenbin Liu, 2016. "CAR associated with SEO share lockups: Real or illusionary?," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 47(3), pages 513-541, October.

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