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IPO Post-Issue Markets: Questionable Predilections But Diligent Learners?

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  • Bossaerts, Peter
  • Hillion, Pierre

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Efficiency in the IPO (Initial Public Offering) aftermarket is tested without imposing any restrictions on the priors about potential default at the issue date. Merging Ritter's extended dataset (which covers the period 1975-84) with the CRSP tapes, IPOs are followed up to ten years after issue. Across all IPOs, or when stratifying IPOs according to issue underpricing, industry affiliation or rank of entry in an industry, little evidence against rational price behavior is found. In contrast, the market clearly over-reacts to information about the eventual fate of low-priced issues. A suggestive relationship between irrational price behavior and subsequent takeover activity is uncovered.

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  • Bossaerts, Peter & Hillion, Pierre, 1997. "IPO Post-Issue Markets: Questionable Predilections But Diligent Learners?," Working Papers 1014, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:clt:sswopa:1014
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    1. Peter Bossaerts, 2001. "Experiments with Financial Markets: Implications for Asset Pricing Theory," The American Economist, Sage Publications, vol. 45(1), pages 17-32, March.
    2. Yong, Othman, 2007. "A review of IPO research in Asia: What's next?," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 15(3), pages 253-275, June.
    3. Radu BORES & Ana-Maria HLACIUC, 2016. "The Economics And Implications Of An Intial Public Offering," EcoForum, "Stefan cel Mare" University of Suceava, Romania, Faculty of Economics and Public Administration - Economy, Business Administration and Tourism Department., vol. 5(2), pages 1-29, July.
    4. Ackert, Lucy F. & Church, Bryan K. & Zhang, Ping, 2004. "Asset prices and informed traders' abilities: Evidence from experimental asset markets," Accounting, Organizations and Society, Elsevier, vol. 29(7), pages 609-626, October.
    5. Chen, Anlin & Chiou, Sue L. & Wu, Chinshun, 2004. "Efficient learning under price limits: evidence from IPOs in Taiwan," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 85(3), pages 373-378, December.

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