Journal of Finance Vol. 59 No. 6 2004
The Effect of Banking Relationships on the Firm's IPO Underpricing
Abstract
This paper investigates the effects of pre‐IPO banking relationships on a firm's IPO. Using a new and unique data set, which compares the firm's pre‐IPO banking relationships to the underwriters managing the firm's new issue, I test whether banking relationships established before the firm's IPO ameliorate asymmetric informa tion problems behind high IPO underpricing. The results show that firms with a pre‐IPO banking relationship with a prospective underwriter face about 17% lower underpricing than firms without such banking relationships. These results are robust to controlling for the firm's endogenous selection of the pre‐IPO banking institution.
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2004.00720.x
- Volume
- 59
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 2903-2958
- Language
- en
- Sources
- crossref bibtex:phds-export.bib openalex