Modeling Internet Operations Using Initial Public Offerings

Sameer Prasad
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Sameer Prasad: University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

American Journal of Business, 2005, vol. 20, issue 2, pages 25-33

Abstract: In this research we test the generalizability of an existing model for classifying information-intensive services that can be globally disaggregated to Internet services. This categorization allows us to judge which types of Internet Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) are likely to have superior performance. SpeciÞcally, we hypothesize that Internet Þrms with higher information intensity, lower physical presence and lower customer contact needs will have a greater probability of generating larger risk-adjusted returns. We test these hypotheses on 340 Internet IPOs and Þnd partial support for the model. In particular, Internet Þrms with high information intensity and low customer contact need yield superior performance. However, Þrms with low physical presence underperform in our sample.

Keywords: Finance; e-commerce; internet services; IPOs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R00 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005

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