Jakobsen, Jan (Department of Finance, Copenhagen Business School) Sørensen, Ole (Department of Accounting and Auditing, Copenhagen Business School)
Abstract
An improved method for measuring and testing long-run returns is proposed. The method adjusts
for the right-skewed distribution of long-run buy-and-hold by decomposing average cross-sectional
buy-and-hold returns into mean components and volatility components. The method is
applied to initial public offerings in Denmark. The mean-component under performance of initial
public offering stocks compared to the market is 30 percent and significant after five years.
Compared to matching firms the under performance of IPO stocks is 13 percent after five years
but insignificant.
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Paper provided by Copenhagen Business School, Department of Finance in its series Working Papers with number
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Find related papers by JEL classification: G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Capital and Ownership Structure
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