Ownership dispersion, costly information, and IPO underpricing

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 291-310

  Booth, James R ^a   Chua, Lena ^b,c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c Garvin School of International Management   (United States)

Author keywords

Information cost; Initial public offerings; Ownership dispersion; Underpricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030160688     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-405X(95)00862-9     Document Type: Article

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