Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/202656 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Birmingham Business School Discussion Paper Series No. 2013-13
Publisher: 
University of Birmingham, Birmingham Business School, Birmingham
Abstract: 
A competing risk hazard model is employed to examine the reasons for Hong Kong's Growth Enterprise (GEM) companies transferring to the Main Board (MB) in the period 2000-2012. In our sample during the period 21 companies or 15% of the original stock moved up to the MB. The modal life expectancy of a GEM company was about eight years. Companies that did not move up to the MB were at a small risk of delisting due to long term suspension or liquidation, but the great majority just remained where they were. Regarding the factors behind transfer to the MB, of the 129 companies listed on the GEM in the period, we find that companies with higher net profit and greater product market power were more likely to graduate in the following year. However, companies with lower growth, higher financial risk and those audited.
Subjects: 
IPO
new listing
survival
delisting
GEM
JEL: 
G24
G32
G38
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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