How do investment banks value initial public offerings (IPOs)?

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 36, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 130-160

  Deloof, Marc ^a   De Maeseneire, Wouter ^b   Inghelbrecht, Koen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GHENT   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Company valuation; Initial public offerings; Investment banks

Indexed keywords

EID: 60849091384     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2008.02117.x     Document Type: Article

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