Over-optimism when pricing IPOs

Managerial Finance

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 352-367

  Paleari, Stefano ^a   Vismara, Silvio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Financial reporting; Italy; Stock markets

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015713909     PISSN: 03074358     EISSN: 17587743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074350710748722     Document Type: Article

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