The Underpricing of Venture and Nonventure Capital IPOs: An Empirical Investigation

Journal of Financial Services Research

Volumn 19, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 99-113

  Francis, Bill B ^a   Hasan, Iftekhar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deliberate underpricing; IPOs; Stochastic frontier; Venture backed IPOs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035630090     PISSN: 09208550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011134715911     Document Type: Article

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