Underpricing of new equity offerings by privatized firms: An international test

International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-30

  Huang, Qi ^a,c   Levich, Richard M ^b  

^a HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Initial Public Offerings; Privatization; State owned enterprises; Underpricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142118646     PISSN: 02190249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S021902490300175X     Document Type: Article

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