Gentlemanly Capitalism Revisited: A Case Study of the Underpricing of Initial Public Offerings on the London Stock Exchange 1946-86
- 1 January 2007
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
The tender, or auction, method achieved substantially lower underpricing than the traditional fixed-price offer for firms going public on the London Stock ExchaKeywords
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