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Underpricing of Chinese Initial Public Offerings

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  • Haifeng Guo
  • Robert Brooks
  • Hung-Gay Fung

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This article discusses the initial public offerings (IPO) market in China and reviews the literature on IPO underpricing. A variety of reasons for underpricing are examined, including information asymmetry, ex ante uncertainty, signaling hypothesis, ownership dispersion, and market feedback. Other features of the Chinese market, such as inequality of supply and demand, allocation mechanisms, ownership structure, and market sentiment, are also considered in explaining the high level of underpricing in China.

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  • Haifeng Guo & Robert Brooks & Hung-Gay Fung, 2011. "Underpricing of Chinese Initial Public Offerings," Chinese Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 44(5), pages 72-85, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:chinec:v:44:y:2011:i:5:p:72-85
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    1. Qi Deng & Zhong-guo Zhou, 2016. "The pricing of first day opening price returns for ChiNext IPOs," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 47(2), pages 249-271, August.
    2. Haifeng Guo & Hung‐Gay Fung, 2011. "Growth Enterprise Board Initial Public Offerings: Characteristics, Volatility and the Initial‐day Performance," China & World Economy, Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, vol. 19(1), pages 106-121, January.
    3. Zhe Shen & Jerry Coakley & Norvald Instefjord, 2014. "Earnings management and IPO anomalies in China," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 42(1), pages 69-93, January.
    4. Yang, Baohua & Zhou, Yingluo & Zhou, Zhong-Guo, 2022. "Strategic behavior of insiders in initial underpricing and long-run underperformance," Emerging Markets Review, Elsevier, vol. 53(C).
    5. Qile Tan & William Dimovski & Victor Fang, 2015. "The Underpricing of Infrastructure IPOs: Evidence from China," Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies (RPBFMP), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 18(04), pages 1-31, December.
    6. Monica Hussein & Zhong-guo Zhou & Qi Deng, 2020. "Does risk disclosure in prospectus matter in ChiNext IPOs’ initial underpricing?," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 54(3), pages 957-979, April.
    7. Zhou, Zhong-guo & Hussein, Monica & Deng, Qi, 2021. "ChiNext IPOs' initial returns before and after the 2013 stock market reform: What can we learn?," Emerging Markets Review, Elsevier, vol. 48(C).

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