The role of venture capital in Italian IPOs

Luca Pennacchio

Economics Bulletin, 2013, vol. 33, issue 4, 2528-2539

Abstract: This paper analyses the role of venture capitalists in Italian Initial Public Offerings (IPOs). Between 1999 and 2012 venture capital backed IPOs are on average less underpriced than non-venture backed IPOs. By using a regression-based approach to account for the non-random distribution of venture financing across firms, I show that the lower underpricing of IPOs venture capital backed is actually due to the causal effect of venture financing. The result is consistent with the certification hypothesis, that is, certifying that the value of issuing firms reflects all relevant inside information, venture capital backing reduces the asymmetric information problem that arises in the IPO process.

Keywords: Venture capital; IPOs; Certification Hypothesis; Underpricing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G1 G3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-10-04
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