An Empirical Investigation of IPO Underpricing in Japanese Stock Market

In general, IPO underpricing is much lower in developed countries than developing countries. However, Japan is developed country with mature stock market, which has a high level of IPO underpricing. This is abnormal. Hence, this dissertation tries to investigate the driving factors in Japanese IPO u...

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Main Author: HUANG, SHAOJIE
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2014
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27355/
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description In general, IPO underpricing is much lower in developed countries than developing countries. However, Japan is developed country with mature stock market, which has a high level of IPO underpricing. This is abnormal. Hence, this dissertation tries to investigate the driving factors in Japanese IPO underpricing by using a data sample of all 1561 IPOs issued in Japanese IPO market from 1997 to 2009. The initial return of new issues is used to measure the level of underpricing. Based on previous literatures and characteristics of Japanese IPO market, a multiple linear regression model is created with ten independent variables, consisting of offer size, offer price, frim age, underwriters’ reputation, offer price position, percent width of offer price range, high-tech industry, bull market, bear market and secondary offering percentage. Through analysing the descriptive statistics for key variables and the regression results, the six variables of frim age, offer price position, high-tech industry, bull market, bear market and secondary offering percentage are considered as significant determinants affecting the IPO underpricing in Japan.
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spelling nottingham-273552017-10-19T13:58:23Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27355/ An Empirical Investigation of IPO Underpricing in Japanese Stock Market HUANG, SHAOJIE In general, IPO underpricing is much lower in developed countries than developing countries. However, Japan is developed country with mature stock market, which has a high level of IPO underpricing. This is abnormal. Hence, this dissertation tries to investigate the driving factors in Japanese IPO underpricing by using a data sample of all 1561 IPOs issued in Japanese IPO market from 1997 to 2009. The initial return of new issues is used to measure the level of underpricing. Based on previous literatures and characteristics of Japanese IPO market, a multiple linear regression model is created with ten independent variables, consisting of offer size, offer price, frim age, underwriters’ reputation, offer price position, percent width of offer price range, high-tech industry, bull market, bear market and secondary offering percentage. Through analysing the descriptive statistics for key variables and the regression results, the six variables of frim age, offer price position, high-tech industry, bull market, bear market and secondary offering percentage are considered as significant determinants affecting the IPO underpricing in Japan. 2014-09-17 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27355/1/HSJ-IPO-JAPAN.pdf HUANG, SHAOJIE (2014) An Empirical Investigation of IPO Underpricing in Japanese Stock Market. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished)
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An Empirical Investigation of IPO Underpricing in Japanese Stock Market
title An Empirical Investigation of IPO Underpricing in Japanese Stock Market
title_full An Empirical Investigation of IPO Underpricing in Japanese Stock Market
title_fullStr An Empirical Investigation of IPO Underpricing in Japanese Stock Market
title_full_unstemmed An Empirical Investigation of IPO Underpricing in Japanese Stock Market
title_short An Empirical Investigation of IPO Underpricing in Japanese Stock Market
title_sort empirical investigation of ipo underpricing in japanese stock market
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27355/