IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bic/journl/v17y2017i1p57-77.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Is the success of an issuer an investor success? Evidence from Polish IPOs

Author

Listed:
  • Bogumila Brycz

    (Department of Management Systems, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland)

  • Tadeusz Dudycz

    (Department of Management Systems, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland)

  • Michal J. Kowalski

    (Department of Management Systems, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland)

Abstract

This article examines the factors that determine IPO success in raising equity capital, and how this success translates into investor success. The study is based on a sample of IPOs on the Warsaw Stock Exchange from 1998 to 2011. We find that pre-IPO profitability is a strong and positive signal for investors that translates into a higher offer price and therefore determines the success of the issuance. However, companies with high IPO success do not provide investors with better performance after going public, nor do they provide protection before the common phenomenon of long-term underperformance. A large-scale value migration between shareholders occurs in companies that achieve IPO success. The investor belief that pre-IPO profitability is a signal of the future earnings potential of an IPO firm indicates that they probably use simple heuristics and have a representativeness bias.

Suggested Citation

  • Bogumila Brycz & Tadeusz Dudycz & Michal J. Kowalski, 2017. "Is the success of an issuer an investor success? Evidence from Polish IPOs," Baltic Journal of Economics, Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies, vol. 17(1), pages 57-77.
    • Handle: RePEc:bic:journl:v:17:y:2017:i:1:p:57-77
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1406099X.2017.1308781
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Tadeusz Dudycz & Bogumiła Brycz, 2021. "Why the Par Value of Share Matters to Investors," IJFS, MDPI, vol. 9(1), pages 1-20, March.
    2. Katarzyna Predkiewicz & Marek Pauka & Paweł Predkiewicz, 2021. "IPO Success of High-Technology Companies," European Research Studies Journal, European Research Studies Journal, vol. 0(3B), pages 799-816.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Equity issue; signals; IPO; initial public offering; Warsaw Stock Exchange; profitability; WSE;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • G10 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
    • G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading
    • O16 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bic:journl:v:17:y:2017:i:1:p:57-77. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Anna Zasova (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/biceplv.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.