Cycles in the IPO market

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 192-208

  Yung, Chris ^a   Çolak, Gönül ^b   Wei Wang, ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse selection; Cross sectional return variance; Delisting rates; Initial public offerings; Underpricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 48349128387     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2007.06.007     Document Type: Article

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