International differences in oversubscription and underpricing of IPOs

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 359-381

  Chowdhry, Bhagwan ^a   Sherman, Ann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Initial public offerings; International IPOs; Oversubscription; Underpricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030194359     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0929-1199(96)00002-8     Document Type: Article

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