IPO information acquisition and investor protection

Fangliang Huang, Li Sun, Jing Chen and Chaopeng Wu

Nankai Business Review International, 2020, vol. 11, issue 4, 569-596

Abstract: Purpose - The purpose of this study is to examine investors’ intention and behavior concerningex anteinformation acquirement andex postclaims from the micro-level perspective with the deepening of the initial public offering (IPO) reform of China. Design/methodology/approach - The authors made surveys and collected 932 valid questionnaires from investors in China. The authors also conducted interviews with sophisticated investors, investment bankers and government regulators to obtain first-hand information. Based on the survey results, the authors make the empirical analysis. Findings - Investors’ attention to the first-hand information of the IPO prospectuses is inadequate. Individuals rely more on second-hand information, while institutions conduct more surveys. The higher the institutional practitioners’ degree of education, the more surveys they make. Only 1/3 investors intend to seek judicial remedy when getting fraud information due to high litigation costs and proof collecting difficulties. The investors who read more about prospectuses in advance are more likely to seek judicial protection afterwards. Compared with investors who know less about government administrative protection measures, those who know more have a low probability to choose “not to seek judicial protection.” Originality/value - The authors enrich the research studies of IPO information acquisition and investor protection by conducting surveys to get first-hand data. Previous literature mostly makes empirical tests by using proxy variables.

Keywords: IPO information acquisition; Investor protection; Sophisticated investors; Questionnaire (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1108/NBRI-01-2020-0006

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