What Determines the Success of an IPO? Analysis of IPO Underpricing on the Warsaw Stock Exchange

Małachowski Paweł () and Gadowska-dos Santos Dominika
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Małachowski Paweł: Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, Warszawa, Poland
Gadowska-dos Santos Dominika: Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, Warszawa, Poland

Central European Economic Journal, 2021, vol. 8, issue 55, 1-14

Abstract: This article aimed to analyse the factors that influence the level of underpricing of an initial public offering (IPO) on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE), based on the example of 101 companies debuting on the main market between 2010 and 2019. We discuss the theories that explain IPO underpricing and the research conducted so far on the Polish market. In the main part of the article, we present the results of our study aimed at identifying and characterising the hitherto-unrecognised factors determining IPO underpricing, which is a contribution to the current research on WSE trends. Our findings point to three variables that influence the level of underpricing: the involvement of private equity or venture capital funds in the transaction, the rate of return of the WSE Index in the 6 months before the IPO, and the amount of capital offered during the debut.

Keywords: IPO underpricing; stock exchange debut; initial rate of return (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G12 G14 G32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.2478/ceej-2021-0001

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