What Determines the Success of an IPO? Analysis of IPO Underpricing on the Warsaw Stock Exchange

• Authors: Paweł Małachowski , Dominika Gadowska dos Santos

Abstracts

EN

This article aimed to analyse the factors that influence the level of underpricing of an initial public offering (IPO) on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE), based on the example of 101 companies debuting on the main market between 2010 and 2019. We discuss the theories that explain IPO underpricing and the research conducted so far on the Polish market. In the main part of the article, we present the results of our study aimed at identifying and characterising the hitherto-unrecognised factors determining IPO underpricing, which is a contribution to the current research on WSE trends. Our findings point to three variables that influence the level of underpricing: the involvement of private equity or venture capital funds in the transaction, the rate of return of the WSE Index in the 6 months before the IPO, and the amount of capital offered during the debut.

Keywords

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IPO underpricing; stock exchange debut; initial rate of return

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych
• Journal: Central European Economic Journal
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 55

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Paweł Małachowski

• Faculty of Economic Sciences University of Warsaw Warszawa, Poland

author

Dominika Gadowska dos Santos

• Faculty of Economic Sciences University of Warsaw Warszawa, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/ceej-2021-0001

Biblioteka Nauki

1356521