Cross-country IPOs: What explains differences in underpricing?

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1289-1305

  Banerjee, Suman ^a   Dai, Lili ^b   Shrestha, Keshab ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Home country bias; Information asymmetry; IPO underpricing; Law enforcement; Litigation risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051594229     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2011.06.004     Document Type: Article

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