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Initial returns: underpricing or overvaluation ? Evidence from easdaq and euronm

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  • Sophie Manigart
  • Wouter De Maeseneire

    (Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School)

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This paper investigates initial returns of Easdaq and EuroNM IPOs and explains part of these returns. Average first day return of 300 IPOs introduced before October 1, 1999, is 36.01 %. The most significant explanatory variable is the mean return of previous IPOs, indicating that high initial returns are caused by too high first trading prices due to investor overreaction and positive market sentiment. Riskier IPOs present substantially higher initial returns. Venture capitalists are not able to significantly reduce initial returns, nor does size of the IPO influence initial returns. Our results indicate that high initial returns are caused by underpricing as well as overvaluation.

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  • Sophie Manigart & Wouter De Maeseneire, 2003. "Initial returns: underpricing or overvaluation ? Evidence from easdaq and euronm," Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School Working Paper Series 2003-11, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School.
  • Handle: RePEc:vlg:vlgwps:2003-11
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    underpricing; investor sentiment; IPOs; initial returns;
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