Strategic incompatibility in ATM markets

We test whether firms use incompatibility strategically, using data from ATM markets. High ATM fees degrade the value of competitors’ deposit accounts, and can in principle serve as a mechanism for siphoning depositors away from competitors or for creating deposit account differentiation. Our empirical framework can empirically distinguish surcharging motivated by this strategic concern from surcharging that simply maximizes ATM profit considered as a stand-alone operation. The results are consistent with such behavior by large banks, but not by small banks. For large banks, the effect of incompatibility seems to operate through higher deposit account fees rather than increased deposit account base.     

从战略角度看新股发行制度改革

目前,A股市场的新股发行制度改革已经是箭在弦上,这是因为现行制度确实存在效率缺失与不公平的地方,尤其是中石油A股上市后一路下跌的状况,更使人们深思:究竟怎样的股票一级市场才是合理的?新股发行制度在其中起到什么作用?     

42家“美丽中国”相关企业IPO候审

在美丽中国概念的驱使下,植树造林、生态修复、旅游建设、水利水电、环境保护、美丽园林、清洁能源将是七大主要受益行业     

Strategic technology adoption and hedging under incomplete markets

We investigate the implications of technological innovation and non-diversifiable risk on entrepreneurial entry and optimal portfolio choice. In a real options model where two risk-averse individuals strategically decide on technology adoption, we show that the impact of non-diversifiable risk on the option timing decision is ambiguous and depends on the frequency of technological change. Compared to the complete market case, non-diversifiable risk may accelerate or delay the optimal investment decision. Moreover, strategic considerations regarding technology adoption play a central role for the entrepreneur’s optimal portfolio choice in the presence of non-diversifiable risk.     

Strategic complementarity of information in financial markets with large shocks

In a simple model of a frictionless financial market with rational agents, the value of private information increases when large discrete shocks independently affect the fundamental value of the asset and the exogenous trading. The complementarity in information gathering generates multiple equilibria.     

上市

侨兴密谋CECT海外上市，17GAME明年赴英国上市。[编者按]     

上市

天威英利上市;天能动力香港上市;舜宇光学登陆香港;     

IPO Pricing in the Dot-com Bubble

IPO underpricing reached astronomical levels during 1999 and 2000. We show that the regime shift in initial returns and other elements of pricing behavior can be at least partially accounted for by marked changes in pre-IPO ownership structure and insider selling behavior over the period, which reduced key decision makers' incentives to control underpricing. After controlling for these changes, the difference in underpricing between 1999 and 2000 and the preceding three years is much reduced. Our results suggest that it was firm characteristics that were unique during the "dot-com bubble" and that pricing behavior followed from incentives created by these characteristics.     

IPO上市

珠海炬力上市 2005年11月30日．中国第三大芯片设计厂商珠海炬力（NASDAQ：ACTS）登陆纳斯达克，上市交易首日股价报收于8美元．同首次公开招股发行价持平。     

IPO下半场

2012年,沉寂多时的中国概念股又开始复苏,然而,重启IPO之路却走得磕磕绊绊。IPO的趋势与前景如何?目前是否是上市的好时机?中国公司上市面临的共同问题将是什么?企业是否做好了充分的准备?这些问题多集中于企业上市前,但上市之后,CFO们又将面临怎样的挑战?2012年6月12日,创业中国精英会(ChinaEntrepreneurs)资本市场系列带领众多知名行业专家与上市企业高管齐聚北京,就多个有关上市不同阶段的话题进行讨论,其中更有多位上市公司CFO针对IPO上市后的挑战袒露心声。     

赴美IPO再认识

重新认识美国IPO环境,是中国企业的必修课。近期,大量中国在美国上市企业遭遇诉讼和退市风潮。如何看待这个问题?其间蕴藏着何种风险?如何规避中国企业的海外上市风险?这涉及到对美国资本市场的结构和规则的理解,对上市流程和中介机构的再认识。     

Overreaction in the thrift IPO aftermarket

We study the initial returns and long-run performance of a unique sample of thrifts that have recently converted from mutual to stock form. In addition to a full claim on all IPO proceeds, new investors in a converted thrift also receive a claim on all pre-conversion market value at no cost. Thus, the average firm in our sample has a degree of underpricing automatically built into its offer price. We find that after removing the large initial returns, cumulative excess returns for the firms in our sample are positive for 12 months after the IPO. Beginning in the second year after the IPO, the average firm in our sample undergoes a significant price correction that lasts approximately 18 months and which produces negative cumulative abnormal returns for up to 5 years post-issue. Differences in risk-adjusted returns also indicate negative long-run returns, with poor performance concentrated in the second and third years following the IPO. The return differences are most pronounced among the small thrifts in our sample, and are broadly consistent with investor overreaction at the time of the IPO that continues for 6–12 months before prices begin reverting back to fundamental value.     

The Impact of Strategic Investment Choices on Post-Issue Operating Performance and Survival of US IPO Firms

Abstract:  We examine the impact of strategic investment choices at the time of the IPO on: (i) the post-issue operating performance and (ii) the likelihood of failure and time-to-failure of newly public US firms. Our post-issue operating performance analysis uses various performance metrics, benchmarks, and expectation models. Overall, our evidence indicates that the extent of diversification and industry-adjusted capital expenditures intensity are generally positively related to changes in operating performance. We do not, however, document a consistent relation between industry-adjusted R&D expenditures and changes in operating performance. The results from our survival analysis suggest that pre-issue managerial commitment to R&D spending and developing diversified product lines enhance the ability of IPO issuing firms to remain viable for longer periods of time. Our study highlights the impact of various managerial investment decisions on the subsequent performance of newly public firms.     

Rational IPO Waves

We argue that the number of firms going public changes over time in response to time variation in market conditions. We develop a model of optimal initial public offering (IPO) timing in which IPO waves are caused by declines in expected market return, increases in expected aggregate profitability, or increases in prior uncertainty about the average future profitability of IPOs. We test and find support for the model's empirical predictions. For example, we find that IPO waves tend to be preceded by high market returns and followed by low market returns.     

国人通信

2006年3月30日，深圳国人通信公司在纳斯达克上市，收报于19美元，比18美元的IPO价格上涨了一美元。[编者按]     

Management of the IPO performance in Thailand

This research aims to explore the relationships between six major IPO elements in Thailand: underwriter reputation, ownership concentration, book-building, IPO allocation, the length of the lock up period, and investor interest and underpricing. The sample comprises 153 IPOs listed between 2001 and 2011. Cross-sectional analysis reveals that IPO allocation appears to be the strongest factor with a negative relation to underpricing. The length of the lock up period, issue size, industry, and hot issue market show significant and positive relationships with underpricing. Underwriter reputation is not associated with underpricing as the choice of underwriter is restricted by the Thai regulator's requirements. Book-building does not explain underpricing. Institutional investors play very limited roles in Thai IPOs. A small change in ownership concentration does not affect underpricing. Nevertheless, a longer lock up period can yield a higher initial return. Such a provision can restrain insider dealing.     

IPO时机选择研究

本文将IPO股票根据IPO时的市场环境分成"冷市"、"普市"和"热市"三类,并从上市交易开始追踪股票5年的日收益率,最后从收益和风险两个角度刻画股票IPO之后的长期绩效并分析业绩变化路径。通过实证分析表明:"冷市"与"普市"中IPO股票的长期业绩较为稳定,"热市"发行的股票存在长期表现不佳的特征;"热市"发行的股票除IPO之后第1年内的业绩能够胜过"冷市"与"普市"发行的股票业绩之外,IPO之后第2年其业绩便迅速下降,到IPO之后第5年,其持有收益率分别落后于"普市"和"冷市"中IPO股票26.01%和32.80%;我国股票市场长期低迷是IPO时机选择的必然结果。     

IPO Failure Risk

We explore the factors associated with historical IPO failures by developing an IPO failure prediction model that includes accounting information as well as proxies for the role of information intermediaries and other IPO deal–related characteristics. We document statistically significant differences in failure models applicable to nontech versus high tech IPOs, and these structural differences are largely driven by accounting‐based proxies for firms' investments in intangible assets, operating performance, and financial leverage. We also develop parsimonious, predominantly accounting‐based, strictly out‐of‐sample (i.e., no hindsight) IPO failure forecasting models for each of the two sectors. We find that our forecasts are negatively associated with one‐year post‐IPO abnormal returns. A pseudo‐hedge strategy of going short (long) in high (low) failure risk portfolios yields returns of economically significant magnitudes over the one‐year horizon, and is robust to alternative returns methodologies. Further results suggest that IPO long‐run returns anomalies may persist, but they take different forms for high‐tech and nontech IPOs.     

Robust determinants of IPO underpricing and their implications for IPO research

Using several different methodologies, we quantify the statistical robustness of variables used in prior research to explain initial IPO returns. We establish a parsimonious list of robust variables and evaluate their implications for different theories of IPO underpricing and clustering. Further, we illustrate how using such a set of robust explanatory variables leads to several different conclusions than prior research that failed to include these important control variables. Researchers who identify new potential predictors of IPO initial returns should control for the list of robust variables we identify.