Signalling and the long-run performance of Spanish Initial Public Offerings (IPOs)

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 32, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 325-350

  Álvarez, Susana ^a,b   González, Víctor M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b Department of Business Administration ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Initial Public Offering (IPO); Long run returns and signalling; Underperformance; Underpricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844462544     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0306-686X.2005.00596.x     Document Type: Article

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