publication . Preprint . Article . Other literature type . 2003

Bookbuilding: How Informative is the Order Book

Name: Bookbuilding: How Informative is the Order Book
Keywords: bookbuilding; Equity Issues; IPOs

Francesca Cornelli; David Goldreich;

Open Access

Published: 01 Aug 2003

Summary

Abstract

When using a formal bookbuilding procedure, underwriters observe the demand curves of investors as stated in the ‘book’ prior to pricing shares in an equity issue. The purpose of this Paper is to examine whether the investment bank uses the information in the book when setting the issue price, and whether this information can help predict subsequent secondary aftermarket prices. We examine the details of the institutional bids for shares for a sample of 63 international equity issues. We find that the issue price is closely related to the limit prices submitted by bidders. The level of oversubscription has a smaller but significant effect. The price primarily re...

doi: 10.2139/ssrn.243142 , 10.1111/1540-6261.00572

Subjects

ACM Computing Classification System: TheoryofComputation_GENERALTheoryofComputation_MISCELLANEOUS

free text keywords: bookbuilding; Equity Issues; IPOs, jel:G24, jel:G30, jel:G32, Demand curve, Underwriting, Initial public offering, Financial economics, Investment banking, business.industry, business, Book building, Economics, Equity (finance), Order book

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