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    Optimal Initial Public Offering design with aftermarket trading


    Rousseau, Fabrice and Parlaine, Sarah (2009) Optimal Initial Public Offering design with aftermarket trading. Working Paper. Department of Economics Finance & Accounting, Maynooth. (Unpublished)

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    Abstract

    We characterize the optimal pricing and allocation of shares in the presence of distinct adverse selection problems. Some investors have private information at the time of the IPO and sell their shares in the after-market upon facing liquidity needs. Others learn their private interest in the after-market, and sell their shares strategically. The optimal mechanism trades-off informational rents and rents to strategic traders. Flipping facilitates truthful information revelation. When liquidity needs are likely, it is optimal to allocate all shares to investors informed at the IPO stage. Otherwise, some shares are allocated to those who trade strategically in the after-market.

    Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
    Keywords: Optimal pricing; Allocation of shares; IPO; Initial public offerings; Trade; Market; Benveniste and Spindt.
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics, Finance and Accounting
    Item ID: 1640
    Depositing User: Ms Sandra Doherty
    Date Deposited: 04 Nov 2009 15:54
    Publisher: Department of Economics Finance & Accounting
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    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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