The Impact of Company Pre-listing Attributes on the Market Reaction to NYSE Listings

Richard B Edelman and H Kent Baker

The Financial Review, 1993, vol. 28, issue 3, 431-48

Abstract: This study examines the market behavior of common stocks transferring from the NASDAQ stock market to the New York Stock Exchange from 1982 to 1989. Using event study methodology, the study tests the joint liquidity-signaling hypothesis that a stock's pre-listing liquidity and earnings per share (EPS) growth (a proxy for signaling) affect the market behavior around NYSE listings. The results show that the market responds more favorably to stocks with low liquidity and high signaling than to stocks with high liquidity and low signaling before listing. Stocks in the former group do not have an anomalous pattern of negative post-listing abnormal returns. Copyright 1993 by MIT Press.

Date: 1993
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