Offering price clusters and underpricing in the US primary market

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 809-822

  Chiang, Kevin C H ^a   Harikumar, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL MARKET; PRICE DETERMINATION; STOCK MARKET;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3242681843     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0960310042000238903     Document Type: Article

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