Asian Review of financial Research

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IPO underpricing is a subject of great interest for researchers. Previous studies have focused on the underpricing of private venture capital-backed IPOs, but mainstream academic researchers have left underpricing in government-backed IPOs largely uninvestigated. In this study, we fill this gap by analyzing the behavior of IPO underpricing for government-backed IPOs in Korea. For the purpose of this study, we examine 468 IPO cases on the KOSDAQ market during the period between 2009 and 2019. Empirical evidence shows that a unique structure of government sponsorship effectively reduces the level of underpricing in the IPO market. In particular, the dual sponsorship of government hybrid funding and private venture capital contributes most significantly to reducing the underpricing in the IPO market.

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Cross-listing and the Value of Corporate Cash Holdings : Evidence from China

Seungjoon Oh, Heungju Park, Xinrui Xie https://www.doi.org/10.37197/ARFR.2020.33.4.1

This paper examines how cross-listing of Chinese A- and Hong Kong H-shares (AH cross-listed) affects the value of corporate cash holdings. Using a sample of AH cross-listed firms, we find that the value of cash holdings is higher for cross-listed than for non-cross-listed firms. The results remain robust to alternative measures of change in cash and consideration of state-owned enterprises. The AH cross-listing valuation premium for cash holdings decreases after a governance reform in the Chinese stock market. Our results suggest that AH cross-listing enhances firms' transparency and disclosure, and thereby the value of cash holdings relative to non-cross-listed companies.

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A Review of Asia's IPO Research

Yao-Min Chiang, Vivian Tai, Wanqin Zhang https://www.doi.org/10.37197/ARFR.2021.34.1.1

Asian markets provide ideal experimental sample for IPO research. Market development and regulatory changes give academic researchers the chance to gain detail insights on IPO topics. The main objective of this paper is to survey the literature on Asian IPOs. We use Web of Science as a data source to collect related literature. We survey papers using Asian IPO samples to study classical IPO topics and discuss special IPO topics in Asian IPO markets. Finally, we provide suggestions for future research on this subject.

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New Measures of Herding Behavior and Cross-sectional Time Dispersion (CSTD) by IPO Firms in Chinese IPO Markets

Sunghwan Kim, Dongmin Lim, Jihyun Kim https://www.doi.org/10.37197/ARFR.2021.34.2.1

In this paper, we develop a new way of measuring the herding behavior of market participants and test herding behavior among investors in Chinese IPO firms, compared with prior methods of herding measure developed by Christie and Huang (1995), Chang, Chen, and Khorana (2000), and Hwang and Salmon (2009). Our proposed new non-parametric herding measure, cross sectional time dispersion (CSTD), is defined differently as dispersion in IPO issuance timing, compared with traditional definitions of herding as dispersion in IPO returns or risk measure. Traditional CSSD, CSAD and beta herding measures do not provide statistically significant or consistent relationship between the herding measures and the IPO firms' initial or long-term returns. In contrast, the new measure of time herding, CSTD clearly and consistently indicates that investors are affected more by the herding behaviors of IPO firms than by those of investors in the IPO markets in China.