Why are European IPOs so rarely priced outside the indicative price range?

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 185-209

  Jenkinson, Tim ^b,c   Morrison, Alan D ^b,c   Wilhelm Jr , William J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bookbuilding; Information acquisition; IPO underpricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644974721     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2005.05.001     Document Type: Article

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