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Initial public offerings and investor heterogeneity: evidence from Malaysia

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  • Soo-Wah Low
  • Othman Yong

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We examine IPO underpricing, offer size, over-subscription ratio, and listing board, in relation to investors' heterogeneous beliefs. Since investors' beliefs are not directly observable, our proxies for investor heterogeneity are specifically tied to variables that reflect investors' behaviour in the IPO immediate aftermarket, namely first-day turnover and first-day price spread. For the entire sample and for the hot issues, we find that IPOs that are highly underpriced, small in offering size and are listed on the MESDAQ Market tend to have high level of heterogeneous beliefs among investors. Investor disagreement is likely to create significant trading volume and result in large price spread. For cold IPOs, the results show that IPOs listed on the MESDAQ market induce high divergence of opinions among investors. It is also shown that initial return of cold IPOs is irrelevant in explaining IPO share turnover and price spread on the first trading day.

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  • Soo-Wah Low & Othman Yong, 2013. "Initial public offerings and investor heterogeneity: evidence from Malaysia," American Journal of Finance and Accounting, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 3(1), pages 41-56.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:amerfa:v:3:y:2013:i:1:p:41-56
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    1. Ali Shaddady & Mohammed Alsaggaf, 2020. "Issues that Matter When Behavioral Finance Factors Drive the Largest Initial Public Offering in the Saudi Financial Market," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Econjournals, vol. 10(6), pages 106-117.
    2. Chew Xin-Er & Ng Sin Huei & Ong Tze San & Teh Boon Heng, 2020. "Underpinning Theories of IPO Underpricing: Evidence from Malaysia," International Journal of Asian Social Science, Asian Economic and Social Society, vol. 10(10), pages 560-573, October.

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