Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/117887 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 8.2004
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
This paper examines the German IPO pricing process which combines bookbuilding with a liquid pre-IPO when-issued market. We find no partial adjustment phenomenon, as has been documented for U.S. IPOs. We thus find no evidence that bookbuilding provides information for IPO pricing, beyond the information that is required to set preliminary price ranges. Once price ranges are set, when-issued trading commences and indicates how IPOs should be priced in the primary market. However, the evidence suggests that such trading does not fully supplant information gathering through bookbuilding.
Subjects: 
Initial public offerings
Bookbuilding
When-issued trading
JEL: 
G32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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