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Book A Survey of the European IPO Market

Download or read book A Survey of the European IPO Market written by and published by CEPS. This book was released on 2006 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Going Public

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  • Author : Tim Jenkinson
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780198295990
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Going Public written by Tim Jenkinson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going Public investigates why companies routinely underprice themselves as they try to list themselves on the stock exchange. They subsequently underperform over the long-term and, in Going Public, the authors explore these 2 phenomena in plain English.

Book Handbook of Research on IPOs

Download or read book Handbook of Research on IPOs written by Mario Levis and published by Edward Elgar Pub. This book was released on 2013 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Research on IPOs provides a comprehensive review of the emerging trends and directions in the global initial public offerings (IPO) markets. The empirical evidence included in the book covers Europe, the US and the Far East, and presents a truly global perspective of IPO markets around the world and at the different stages of the entire IPO process.The Handbook is divided into six comprehensive parts:* why, when and where firms go public* preparation for the IPO* transaction structure and governance at the IPO* trading in the aftermarket* the aftermarket performance of IPOs* special types of IPOs. The chapters offer some important new insights into issues that will be of interest not only to the academic community but also to professionals involved in the preparation, structure and execution of such transactions, market regulators, and private and institutional investors.

Book Managed by the Markets

Download or read book Managed by the Markets written by Gerald F. Davis and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current economic crisis reveals just how central finance has become to American life. Problems with obscure securities created on Wall Street radiated outward to threaten the retirement security of pensioners in Florida and Arizona, the homes and college savings of families in Detroit and Southern California, and ultimately the global economy itself. The American government took on vast new debt to bail out the financial system, while the government-owned investment funds of Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Malaysia, and China bought up much of what was left of Wall Street. How did we get into this mess, and what does it all mean? Managed by the Markets explains how finance replaced manufacturing at the center of the American economy and how its influence has seeped into daily life. From corporations operated to create shareholder value, to banks that became portals to financial markets, to governments seeking to regulate or profit from footloose capital, to households with savings, pensions, and mortgages that rise and fall with the market, life in post-industrial America is tied to finance to an unprecedented degree. Managed by the Markets provides a guide to how we got here and unpacks the consequences of linking the well-being of society too closely to financial markets.

Book An Essay on Culture

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  • Author : Bennett M. Berger
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2024-07-26
  • ISBN : 0520377591
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book An Essay on Culture written by Bennett M. Berger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of thirty-five years of thought and research on culture by one of the best and most literate writers in sociology, this wide-ranging review of the meaning and study of culture is Bennett Berger at his best. Drawing on his unsurpassed knowledge of the scholarly literature and on his wealth of personal experience, Berger reviews and synthesizes recent work in cultural sociology from a materialist perspective. An Essay on Culture culminates in a call for an empirical research program focused on the relation between symbolic choices and social locations, rather than on interpretive accounts of the meanings of texts or performances. Among his unusual insights are a defense of reductionism, sympathetic accounts of peer pressure and special interests, an attempt to restore some dignity to the word “ideology,” and a fresh perspective on conspiracy theory. Scholars and students of culture will find here stunning discussions and theoretical insights on ideological work, morality and culture, and on the relations between social structure and cultural structure. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.

Book Emerging Market Economies and Financial Globalization

Download or read book Emerging Market Economies and Financial Globalization written by Leonardo E. Stanley and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past, foreign shocks arrived to national economies mainly through trade channels, and transmissions of such shocks took time to come into effect. However, after capital globalization, shocks spread to markets almost immediately. Despite the increasing macroeconomic dangers that the situation generated at emerging markets in the South, nobody at the North was ready to acknowledge the pro-cyclicality of the financial system and the inner weakness of “decontrolled” financial innovations because they were enjoying from the “great moderation.” Monetary policy was primarily centered on price stability objectives, without considering the mounting credit and asset price booms being generated by market liquidity and the problems generated by this glut. Mainstream economists, in turn, were not majorly attracted in integrating financial factors in their models. External pressures on emerging market economies (EMEs) were not eliminated after 2008, but even increased as international capital flows augmented in relevance thereafter. Initially economic authorities accurately responded to the challenge, but unconventional monetary policies in the US began to create important spillovers in EMEs. Furthermore, in contrast to a previous surge in liquidity, funds were now transmitted to EMEs throughout the bond market. The perspective of an increase in US interest rates by the FED is generating a reversal of expectations and a sudden flight to quality. Emerging countries’ currencies began to experience higher volatility levels, and depreciation movements against a newly strong US dollar are also increasingly observed. Consequently, there are increasing doubts that the “unexpected” favorable outcome observed in most EMEs at the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) would remain.

Book Portfolio Preferences of Foreign Institutional Investors

Download or read book Portfolio Preferences of Foreign Institutional Investors written by Reena Aggarwal and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Price Performance of Initial Public Offerings in Turkey

Download or read book Price Performance of Initial Public Offerings in Turkey written by Bengi Özer and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Öz/Özet/İçindekiler CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS vii LIST OF FIGURES x LIST OF TABLES xi 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Importance of IPOs as a Research Area 1 1.2. Purpose of the Study 2 2. LITERATURE REVIEW 5 2.1. Initial Performance of IPOs 5 2.1.1. Short Term Underpricing 5 2.1.2. Hot Issue Markets 7 2.2 Claims of Investor Irrationality 8 2.3. Alternative Equilibrium Explanations 10 2.3.1. Information Asymmetry Between Informed and Uninformed Investors 10 2.3.2. Partial Adjustment Hypothesis 11 2.3.3. Information Asymmetry Between the Underwriter and the Issuer 12 2.3.4. Monopsony Power Hypothesis 13 2.3.5. Signaling by Underwriter Reputation 13 2.3.6. Signaling by Choice of Offering Method 14 2.3.7. Underpricing as a Signal of Firm Quality 15 2.3.8. Signaling by the Amount of Equity Retained 16 2.3.9. Signaling by Third Party Certification 16 2.3.10. Implicit Insurance Hypothesis 17 2.3.11. Market Structure as a Source of Underpricing 19 2.4. International Evidence 20 3. DATA AND METHODOLOGY 23 3.1. Data and Data Collection Methods 23 3.2. Variables Used 24 3.2.1. Performance Variables 24 3.2.1.1. Raw Returns 25 3.2.1.2. Market Adjusted Returns 26 3.2.1.3. Market Adjusted Aftermarket Returns 27 3.2.2. Characteristic Variables 28 3.2.2.1. Market Related Characteristics 28 3.2.2.2. Issue Related Characteristics 28 3.2.2.3. Issuing Firm Characteristics 29 3.2.3.1. Underwriter Characteristics 30 3.3. Methodology 30 3.3.1. Documentation of Return Structures 30 3.3.2. Tests on the Presence of Abnormal Returns 31 3.3.3. Relationship Between Initial and Aftermarket Returns 32 3.3.4. Cross-sectional Differences in IPO Returns 32 3.3.5. Determinants of Initial Returns 33 4. RESULTS 35 4.1. Return Structures of IPOs 35 4.1.1. Raw Returns 35 4.1.2. Market Adjusted Returns 41 4.1.2.1. Excess-over-the market Appoach 41 4.1.2.2. Cross-sectional Regressions Method 45 4.1.3. Adjusted Aftermarket Returns 47 4.2. Relationship, Between Market Performance Masures 51 4.3. Characteristics of IPOs 54 4.3.1. Performance Variables 54 4.3.1.1. Initial Performance 54 4.3.1.2. Long Term Performance 54 4.3.2. Market Related Characteristics 55 4.3.2.1. Year of Issue 56 4.3.2.2. Indicators of Market Trend 57 4.3.2.3. Indicators of Market Volatility 58 4.3.3. Issue Related Characteristics 58 4.3.3.1. Real Offer Price 59 4.3.3.2. Place of Offer 59 4.3.3.3. Real Amount for Sale 59 4.3.3.4. Source of Equity Sold 60 4.3.3.5. Percentage of Equity Offered 60 4.3.3.6. Nature of the Issue 61 4.3.4. Issuing Firm Characteristics 61 4.3.4.1. Age at the Offer 63 4.3.4.2. Industry Classification 62 4.3.4.3. Number of Shareholders Be forethcIPO 63 4.3.5. Underwriter Characteristics 63 4:3.5.1. Identity of the Lead Underwriter 63 4.3.5.2. Number of Underwriters in an Offer 65 4.3.5.3. Relationship Between the Underw and Issuer 66 4. Cross-sectional Differences in IPO Returns 66 4.4.1. Market Related Characteristics 67 4.4.1.1. Year of Issue 67 4.4.1.1.1. Initial Returns 68 4.4.1.1.2. Adjusted After market Returns 70 4.4.1.2. Market Trend at the Time of IPO 75 4-4.2. Issue Related Characteristics 77 4.4.2.1. Nature of the Issue 77 4.4.2.2. Real Offer Price 81 4.4.2.3. Place of Offe 82 4.4.3. Issuing Firm Related Characteristics 84 4.4.4 Underwriter Characteristics 85 4.4.4.1. Identity of the Lead Underwriter 85 4.4.4.2. Number of Underwriters in an Offer 86 4.4.4.3. Relationship Between the Underwriter and Issuer 86 4.5. Determinants of Initial Returns 90 4.5.1. Total Sample 91 4.5.2. Excluding Initial Outliers 95 5. CONCLUSIONS 97 6. REFERENCES 101.

Book Managing Capital Flows

Download or read book Managing Capital Flows written by Masahiro Kawai and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing Capital Flows provides analyses that can help policymakers develop a framework for managing capital flows that is consistent with prudent macroeconomic and financial sector stability. While capital inflows can provide emerging market economies with invaluable benefits in pursuing economic development and growth, they can also pose serious policy challenges for macroeconomic management and financial sector supervision. The expert contributors cover a wide range of issues related to managing capital flows and analyze the experience of emerging Asian economies in dealing with surges in capital inflows. They also discuss possible policy measures to manage capital flows while remaining consistent with the goals of macroeconomic and financial sector stability. Building on this analysis, the book presents options for workable national policies and regional policy cooperation, particularly in exchange rate management. Containing chapters that bring in international experiences relevant to Asia and other emerging market economies, this insightful book will appeal to policymakers in governments and financial institutions, as well as public and private finance experts. It will also be of great interest to advanced students and academic researchers in finance.

Book Initial Public Offerings

Download or read book Initial Public Offerings written by Michelle Lowry and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this monograph is to provide an overview of the IPO literature since 2000. The fewer numbers of companies going public in recent years has raised many questions regarding the IPO process, in both academic and regulatory circles. As we all strive to understand these changes in the market, it is especially important to understand the dynamics underlying the IPO process. If the process of going public is too costly or the IPO mechanism is plagued by too many conflicts of interest among the various intermediaries, then private companies may rationally choose other methods of raising capital. In a related vein, it is imperative that new regulations not be based on research focusing solely on large, more mature firms. Newly public firms have unique characteristics, and an increased understanding of such issues will contribute positively to well-functioning public markets and further growth of the entrepreneurial sector. We also provide a detailed guide to researchers on how to obtain a research-quality sample of IPOs, from standard data sources. Related to this, we tabulate important corrections to these standard data sources.

Book Handbook of Hedge Funds

Download or read book Handbook of Hedge Funds written by François-Serge Lhabitant and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to the burgeoning hedge fund industry Intended as a comprehensive reference for investors and fund and portfolio managers, Handbook of Hedge Funds combines new material with updated information from Francois-Serge L’habitant’s two other successful hedge fund books. This book features up-to-date regulatory and historical information, new case studies and trade examples, detailed analyses of investment strategies, discussions of hedge fund indices and databases, and tips on portfolio construction. Francois-Serge L’habitant (Geneva, Switzerland) is the Head of Investment Research at Kedge Capital. He is Professor of Finance at the University of Lausanne and at EDHEC Business School, as well as the author of five books, including Hedge Funds: Quantitative Insights (0-470-85667-X) and Hedge Funds: Myths & Limits (0-470-84477-9), both from Wiley.

Book Investing in Resilience

Download or read book Investing in Resilience written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investing in Resilience: Ensuring a Disaster-Resistant Future focuses on the steps required to ensure that investment in disaster resilience happens and that it occurs as an integral, systematic part of development. At-risk communities in Asia and the Pacific can apply a wide range of policy, capacity, and investment instruments and mechanisms to ensure that disaster risk is properly assessed, disaster risk is reduced, and residual risk is well managed. Yet, real progress in strengthening resilience has been slow to date and natural hazards continue to cause significant loss of life, damage, and disruption in the region, undermining inclusive, sustainable development. Investing in Resilience offers an approach and ideas for reflection on how to achieve disaster resilience. It does not prescribe specific courses of action but rather establishes a vision of a resilient future. It stresses the interconnectedness and complementarity of possible actions to achieve disaster resilience across a wide range of development policies, plans, legislation, sectors, and themes. The vision shows how resilience can be accomplished through the coordinated action of governments and their development partners in the private sector, civil society, and the international community. The vision encourages “investors” to identify and prioritize bundles of actions that collectively can realize that vision of resilience, breaking away from the current tendency to pursue disparate and fragmented disaster risk management measures that frequently trip and fall at unforeseen hurdles. Investing in Resilience aims to move the disaster risk reduction debate beyond rhetoric and to help channel commitments into investment, incentives, funding, and practical action

Book The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurial Finance

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurial Finance written by Douglas Cumming and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive picture of issues dealing with different sources of entrepreneurial finance and different issues with financing entrepreneurs. The Handbook comprises contributions from 48 authors based in 12 different countries.

Book The Saudi Arabian Economy

Download or read book The Saudi Arabian Economy written by Mohamed A. Ramady and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-05 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Saudi Arabian economy has changed almost beyond recognition since the oil boom days of the 1980s, and the Kingdom itself has changed too economically, socially, and demographically. In the second edition of The Saudi Arabian Economy, Mohamed Ramady uses several overlapping themes to establish and develop a framework for studying the fundamental challenges to the Saudi economy. Particular attention is paid to the benefits of short-term planning and long-term diversification intended to shield the economy from potentially de-stabilizing oil price fluctuations and the pace and diversity of domestic reforms. The author examines the core strengths and evolution of various financial institutions and the Saudi stock market in the face of globalization, before analyzing the private sector in detail. Topics discussed include: • The hydrocarbon and minerals sector, including the emergence of the competitive petrochemical sector • The impact of small and medium sized businesses and the evolving role of “family” businesses • The growing role of women in the Saudi economy • The role of privatization and FDI as engines of change and the position of public-private-partnerships • The establishment of a foundation for a knowledge-based economy Finally, the author offers an analysis of the key challenges facing the Saudi economy, paying particular attention to the potential costs and benefits of globalization, and membership in the WTO. Employment, education, economic and social stability, and Saudi Arabia’s place in the Gulf Cooperation Council, as well as Saudi Arabia’s evolving strategic economic relations with China and other countries are offered as keys to the consensus building needed to ensure the Kingdom’s healthy economic future.

Book Law and Corporate Finance

Download or read book Law and Corporate Finance written by Frank B. Cross and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors examine the role of the law in developing large financial markets necessary for national economic success. They discuss the basic foundational law of contracts, property and tort, corporate law, and securities law, providing both a broad theoretical and empirical case for its value in financial markets.

Book Promoting Access to Medical Technologies and Innovation   Intersections between Public Health  Intellectual Property and Trade

Download or read book Promoting Access to Medical Technologies and Innovation Intersections between Public Health Intellectual Property and Trade written by World Intellectual Property Organization and published by WIPO. This book was released on 2013 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study has emerged from an ongoing program of trilateral cooperation between WHO, WTO and WIPO. It responds to an increasing demand, particularly in developing countries, for strengthened capacity for informed policy-making in areas of intersection between health, trade and IP, focusing on access to and innovation of medicines and other medical technologies.

Book Investment Valuation

Download or read book Investment Valuation written by Aswath Damodaran and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valuation is a topic that is extensively covered in business degree programs throughout the country. Damodaran's revisions to "Investment Valuation" are an addition to the needs of these programs.