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IPO underpricing and sentiment of investors
Scheerová, Lucie ; Dědek, Oldřich (advisor) ; Lupusor, Adrian (referee)
The thesis investigates investor sentiment, proxied by grey market prices, being a common source for IPO underpricing, long-term underperformance of IPOs, and cycles in IPO volume. The paper contributes to the field of research by an updated German dataset from 2000 to 2010, and by investigating all main IPO market anomalies together with their common trigger. The results show evidence of a positive relationship between the investor sentiment and IPO underpricing, indicating the investor sentiment being an explanation for it. Moreover, the study shows investor sentiment being positively linked to offer prices - an evidence of issuers exploiting that sentiment. However, the long-term underperformance relative to the aftermarket price of IPOs from high underpricing periods - another evidence of investor sentiment being a source for IPO underpricing - has not been confirmed. Other hypotheses have also not been verified. They include higher IPO volume following high underpricing periods and long-term underperformance relative to the offer price of IPOs from high underpricing periods. Both these hypotheses would represent another confirmation of firms exploiting the investor sentiment. The statistically significant results are consistent with other papers. The insignificance might have been caused by the method...
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IPO underpricing and sentiment of investors
Scheerová, Lucie ; Dědek, Oldřich (advisor) ; Lupusor, Adrian (referee)
The thesis investigates investor sentiment, proxied by grey market prices, being a common source for IPO underpricing, long-term underperformance of IPOs, and cycles in IPO volume. The paper contributes to the field of research by an updated German dataset from 2000 to 2010, and by investigating all main IPO market anomalies together with their common trigger. The results show evidence of a positive relationship between the investor sentiment and IPO underpricing, indicating the investor sentiment being an explanation for it. Moreover, the study shows investor sentiment being positively linked to offer prices - an evidence of issuers exploiting that sentiment. However, the long-term underperformance relative to the aftermarket price of IPOs from high underpricing periods - another evidence of investor sentiment being a source for IPO underpricing - has not been confirmed. Other hypotheses have also not been verified. They include higher IPO volume following high underpricing periods and long-term underperformance relative to the offer price of IPOs from high underpricing periods. Both these hypotheses would represent another confirmation of firms exploiting the investor sentiment. The statistically significant results are consistent with other papers. The insignificance might have been caused by the method...
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Financial market anomalies
Gavrylyuk, Zinayida ; Havlíček, David (advisor)
This bachelor thesis is focused on the analysis of some well-known financial market anomalies. The first part deals with the efficient market theory which is confronted with the basic ideas of behavioral finance. It is followed by the more-detailed description and analysis of three selected anomalies: the December effect, the momentum effect, and the underpricing of IPO. Analytical part tests the occurrence of anomalies on selected equity markets and deals with the possibilities to exploit them. There was not found any statistically significant evidence of influence of the December effect and the momentum effect on stock returns. But there were found significant differences in underpricing of IPO across sectors of the U. S. industry. The thesis provides an overview of the characteristics and occurrence of selected market abnormalities and opens the door to a more detailed analysis.
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