Do Share Allocations to the Indigenous Investor Drive the Demand for IPOs?

Ahmad Hakimi Tajuddin (), Kanesh Gopal, Rasidah Mohd-Rashid, Waqas Mehmood and Elkhan Richard Sadik-Zada ()
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Ahmad Hakimi Tajuddin: School of Accounting & Finance, Faculty of Business and Law, Taylor’s University, Subang Jaya 47500, Malaysia
Kanesh Gopal: Faculty of Accountancy, Finance and Business, Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology, Kuala Lumpur 53300, Malaysia
Rasidah Mohd-Rashid: School of Economics, Finance and Banking, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok 06010, Malaysia
Waqas Mehmood: School of Accounting & Finance, Faculty of Business and Law, Taylor’s University, Subang Jaya 47500, Malaysia
Elkhan Richard Sadik-Zada: Institute of Development Research and Development Policy, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44801 Bochum, Germany

Economies, 2023, vol. 11, issue 4, 1-18

Abstract: The purpose of this paper was to investigate the impact of allocating shares to the indigenous ( Bumiputera ) investors on the oversubscription ratio of IPO. This factor is unique to Malaysian IPOs and would enable us to reflect the signaling theory. Data on 348 IPO firms listed on Bursa Malaysia over a span of 17 years from 2002 to 2018 were examined using a cross-sectional regression analysis. The findings demonstrated no significant impact arising from the fractions of shares allocated to Bumiputera investors on the oversubscription ratios, except that the revised guidelines on the Bumiputera equity requirement had a significant negative influence on oversubscription. Further tests showed that the influence of such share allocation on oversubscription was moderated by firm size, which was proxied by market capitalization. The findings lend support to the signaling theory, indicating that the demand for IPOs will be slightly higher for larger firms listed in bigger markets.

Keywords: indigenous; Bumiputera; IPO; oversubscription; signaling; firm size; retail investors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E F I J O Q (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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