Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/60973 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Staff Report No. 459
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY
Abstract: 
The financial crisis provides a natural experiment for testing theoretical predictions of the equity underwriter's role following an initial public offering. Clients of Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and Wachovia saw their stock prices fall almost 5 percent, on average, on the day it appeared that their equity underwriter might collapse. Representing a loss in equity value of more than $3 billion, the decline was more than 1 percent lower than the conditional return predicted by a market model. The price impact was worse for companies with more opaque operations and fewer monitors, suggesting that underwriters play an important role in monitoring newly public companies. There is no evidence that the abnormal price decrease was related to the role of the underwriter as market maker or lender.
Subjects: 
Investment banking
financial crisis
IPOs
underwriting
event study
JEL: 
G2
G24
G3
G30
G14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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