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Impact of the Penny Stock Reform Act of 1990 on the Initial Public Offering Market

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  • Beatty, Randolph
  • Kadiyala, Padma

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The Penny Stock Reform Act of 1990 (PSRA) was an attempt to curb fraudulent security issues by placing severe restrictions on initial public offerings that were priced below $5. The regulation had the cosmetic effect of reducing the number of initial public offerings priced below $5 but had no substantive impact on issuer quality. Delisting risk, which is a measure of issuer quality, did not decline significantly in the post-PSRA period. Instead, abnormal returns earned by a portfolio of nonpenny stocks declined significantly in the post-PSRA period. We present evidence that attributes the decline in abnormal returns to the migration of speculative issuers into the nonpenny range.

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  • Beatty, Randolph & Kadiyala, Padma, 2003. "Impact of the Penny Stock Reform Act of 1990 on the Initial Public Offering Market," Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 46(2), pages 517-541, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:jlawec:y:2003:v:46:i:2:p:517-41
    DOI: 10.1086/380387
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