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Institutional Ownership and IPO Performance: Australian Evidence

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The duo IPO anomalies of underpricing and long run underperformance have inspired a plethora of studies. Yet few have examined the impact of majority investors in IPOs, namely institutional investors. Consistent with previous studies, we found large underpricing which was greatest in those issuers with the highest initial institutional ownership. Yet these issuers experienced the worst long-run underperformance which casts doubts over the informed-trading hypothesis. The findings are consistent with overreactions driven by informational cascade in the IPO market. High level of initial institutional interests generates informational herding that drives these issuers’ prices beyond the fundamental. Over time, market correction leads to the long-run underperformance. Our results cast a somewhat different light on institutions’ role in IPOs, rather than being a valuable source of price discovery; Institutions may be a force of destabilization in what is already an event wrath with uncertainty.

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  • Ron Bird & Danny Yeung, 2010. "Institutional Ownership and IPO Performance: Australian Evidence," Working Paper Series 6, The Paul Woolley Centre for Capital Market Dysfunctionality, University of Technology, Sydney.
    • Handle: RePEc:uts:pwcwps:6
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    1. Keun Jung Lee, 2021. "The Effects of Privatization and Corporate Governance of SOEs in Transition Economies: The Case of Kazakhstan," ADB Institute Series on Development Economics, in: Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary & Naoyuki Yoshino & Chul Ju Kim & Kunmin Kim (ed.), Reforming State-Owned Enterprises in Asia, chapter 0, pages 113-132, Springer.
    2. Alberto Dreassi & Massimiliano Kaucic & Giorgio Valentinuz, 2017. "The Information Content Of Earnings Announcements In The European Insurance Market: An Event Study Analysis," Eurasian Journal of Business and Management, Eurasian Publications, vol. 5(3), pages 1-16.
    3. Emanuele Teti & Ilaria Montefusco, 2022. "Corporate governance and IPO underpricing: evidence from the italian market," Journal of Management & Governance, Springer;Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale (AIDEA), vol. 26(3), pages 851-889, September.
    4. Sanjay Dhamija & Ravinder Kumar Arora, 2017. "Determinants of Long-run Performance of Initial Public Offerings: Evidence from India," Vision, , vol. 21(1), pages 35-45, March.

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