Monitoring as a motivation for IPO underpricing

Journal of Finance

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2403-2420

  Aruǧaslan, Onur ^a   Cook, Douglas O ^b   Kieschnick, Robert ^c  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

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EID: 6344283108     PISSN: 00221082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2004.00703.x     Document Type: Article

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