Investor Sentiment and Pre-Issue Markets

48 Pages Posted: 3 Nov 2008

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Francesca Cornelli

London Business School; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

David Goldreich

University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management

Alexander Ljungqvist

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Swedish House of Finance; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

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Date Written: May 2004

Abstract

What role do sentiment investors play in the pricing of newly listed stocks? We derive conditions under which we can distinguish between sentiment and rational pricing behavior and test for the rationality of small investors demand for new stock issues using data from pre-issue (or grey ) markets in Europe. Under sentiment, the model predicts asymmetric relations between the prices at which small investors trade new stock issues in the grey market and i) the subsequent issue price set by the investment bank, ii) prices in the early after-market, and iii) the degree of stock price reversal in the long run. Our empirical results suggest that sentiment demand is presentand influences the pricing of newly listed firms.

Suggested Citation

Cornelli, Francesca and Goldreich, David and Ljungqvist, Alexander and Ljungqvist, Alexander, Investor Sentiment and Pre-Issue Markets (May 2004). NYU Working Paper No. FIN-04-011, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1294446

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