IPO Behavior in GCC Countries : Goody-Two Shoes or Bad-to-the-Bone?

This paper documents the phenomenon of underpricing initial public offerings (IPOs) for 47 firms that went public between 2001 and 2006 in the equity markets of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. The average initial abnormal returns of 290 percent exceed those found in the existing li...

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مؤلف مشترك: International Monetary Fund
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/149
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF