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Journal of Corporate Finance Vol. 12 No. 1 2005

Post-listing underperformance: Is it really bad to move trading locations?

Yingmei Cheng

Florida State University

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Abstract

We reexamine the post-listing puzzle by studying the stock performance of 2103 firms that moved from NASDAQ to NYSE or AMEX, or from AMEX to NYSE during 1973–1999. The matched four-factor regressions demonstrate that the listing firms do not underperform. Size-and-book-to-market matched factor regression finds that the “post-listing drift” is confined to the small set of firms moving from NASDAQ to AMEX during 1981–1990, within size deciles 3–6 and book-to-market quintiles 1–3. A further control of the industry effect is able to resolve the remaining abnormal returns. Our results are consistent with the pseudo market timing hypothesis in Schultz, (2003) [Schultz, P., 2003. Pseudo market timing and the long-run underperformance of IPOs. J. Fin. 58, 483–517.].

DOI
10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2004.10.001
Volume
12
Issue
1
Pages
97-120
Language
en
Sources
bibtex:phds-export.bib openalex crossref

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