Underpricing of IPOs: Firm-, issue- and country-specific characteristics

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1958-1969

  Engelen, Peter Jan ^a   van Essen, Marc ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Investor protection; IPO; Legal framework; Multi level modeling; Underpricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953534434     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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