The impact of economic policy uncertainty on IPO underpricing: Evidence from China

Wanbin Pan, Yanliang Liu and Libin Tao

Finance Research Letters, 2024, vol. 59, issue C

Abstract: Based on a sample of 1,656 IPOs in the Chinese stock market from 2009 to 2022, this paper provides evidence that an increase in economic policy uncertainty (EPU) significantly reduces the level of IPO underpricing. In addition, by decomposing IPO underpricing, we find that this effect is driven by both primary and secondary markets. Finally, subsample regressions show that EPU significantly decreases primary (secondary) market underpricing for companies underwritten by the top 10 (non-top 10) underwriters.

Keywords: IPO underpricing; Economic policy uncertainty; Underwriter reputation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2023.104810

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