Abstract:Local IPO waves occur when firms from different industries, but located in the same area, go public in the same time period. We classify IPOs within industry IPO waves and within local IPO waves, and see that the sub‐samples of IPOs on the wave by industry only slightly overlap IPOs on the wave by region; IPO waves by region are similar to IPO waves by industry: for example, early‐in‐the‐wave IPOs are equally more underpriced than late‐in‐the‐wave IPOs. We also find the listing decision is sensitive not only t… Show more
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