The Underpricing Of Initial Public Offerings: Further Canadian Evidence
Author(s) -
Maher Kooli,
JeanMarc Suret
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
ssrn electronic journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1556-5068
DOI - 10.2139/ssrn.297120
Subject(s) - initial public offering , underwriting , business , monetary economics , stock (firearms) , prestige , capital (architecture) , economics , accounting , finance , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , engineering , history
Evidence of underpricing of initial public offerings (IPOs) has spawned a considerable theoretical literature attempting to explain the apparent contradiction to market efficiency. This article reassesses that evidence by examining not just common shares Canadian IPOs, but also unit and Junior stock IPOs from the period 1991-1998. Our study shows that Canadian IPOs as major IPOs in the world are underpriced. However, the degree of underpricing depends on the type of the issue. Unit IPOs and Junior Capital Pool (JCP) IPOs are more underpriced than common shares IPOs. Our results also suggest that the IPO market in Canada is «good» only for large offerings. We have entertained a number of possible explanations for the high initial return of Canadian issuing firms. We find that the underpricing is significantly related to the size and the period of the issue and to whether the IPO is a JCP or not. On the other hand, the prestige of the underwriter is positively related to the underpricing but this relationship is not significant. La presente etude propose une analyse en profondeur du comportement des emissions initiales canadiennes de 1991 a 1998, en incluant les titres emis dans le cadre des programmes de Capital Pool. Les resultats montrent que la sous evaluation initiale persiste au Canada, en moyenne. Toutefois, le degres de sous-evaluation est fortement lie au type d'emission: les emissions d'unites et celles qui se font dans le cadre des programmes de Capital Pool sont davantage sous evaluees que les emissions d'actions ordinaires hors Capital pool. Les emissions de taille moyenne et de grande taille semblent correctement evalues au Canada, contrairement a ce que l'on observe sur la plupart des marches et notamment aux Etats-Unis. La sous-evaluation initiale concerne donc essentiellement les emissions de 20 millions de $ et moins, qui representent toutefois 76,3 p. cent des emissions analysees. La sous-evaluation initiale reste donc un probleme majeur pour les petites et moyennes entreprises canadiennes. Parmi les autres explications possibles a la sous-evaluation initiale, seule la periode d'emission semble jouer un role significatif, en plus de la taille et de l'appartenance ou non au programme des Capital Pool.
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