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The Role of Admission Documents on the Pricing of UK Fixed Priced IPOs

Falconieri, S. & Tastan, M. (2018). The Role of Admission Documents on the Pricing of UK Fixed Priced IPOs. Economics Letters, 173, pp. 44-46. doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2018.09.007

Abstract

Using text sentiment analysis, we investigate the impact of the length of prospectuses on IPO pricing for a sample of UK Fixed Priced IPOs between 2004 and 2012 and show more information in the prospectus improves price accuracy as longer admission documents exhibit higher offer price and less underpricing. We explain the effect on the offer price as the consequence of the “pilot fishing” stage which seems to characterize a lot of UK IPOs.

Publication Type: Article
Additional Information: © 2018, Elsevier. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Publisher Keywords: Sentiment, fixed-price IPOs, admission document, underpricing, pilot fishing
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HG Finance
Departments: Bayes Business School > Finance
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