The efficiency of IPO issuing mechanisms and market conditions: evidence in China

Chen Su ()
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Chen Su: Newcastle University Business School

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2018, vol. 51, issue 2, No 7, 495 pages

Abstract: Abstract This study conducts a comparison analysis on the efficiency of bookbuilding and secondary market proportional offering (hereafter, SMP offering) in the China stock market. SMP offering as described in this paper is not a follow-on offering, but an initial offering applicable to investors in the secondary market. Specifically, as a unique type of fixed price offering, SMP offering only allows the existing investors who are holding shares (of any listed firms) in the secondary market to subscribe to IPO shares. The amount of IPO shares available to be subscribed by the existing investors is proportional to market value of shares held by them in the secondary market. We find some interesting evidence showing that, compared with bookbuilding, SMP offering is more efficient for pricing IPOs, particularly, in a volatile market. SMP offering leads to lower underpricing and lower cross-sectional variation of short-run returns of IPOs. Also, SMP offering is better able to counteract adverse market conditions in the form of low market return and/or high market volatility. Our results are robust to various alternative tests, e.g., the Heckman (Econometrica 47:153–161, 1979) two-stage procedure and an out-of-sample test, after controlling for the problem of endogeneity and for the influence of the exchange of listing, respectively.

Keywords: IPO issuing mechanism; Underpricing; Market conditions; Bookbuilding; Secondary market proportional offering (SMP offering) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G15 G24 G32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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