Credit ratings and IPO pricing

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 584-595

  Chan, Kam C ^b  

^a Hunter)   (United States)

^b WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Credit rating; Information asymmetry; IPO underpricing; Price revision; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349142966     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2008.09.010     Document Type: Article

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