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The Small Firms Effect on New Issues of Common Stocks When Listing Requirements Differ Between Exchanges

David Ayling (School of Accounting,Banking and Economics, University College of North Wales,Bangor)

Managerial Finance

ISSN: 0307-4358

Article publication date: 1 June 1990

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Abstract

This paper extends the search for small firms and exchange efficiency effects on seasoned stocks to the new issues market on a sample of placings drawn from the UKs Official List, Unlisted Securities Market and Third Market. Tests of means and regressions are undertaken to examine the relationships between sizes of new issues discounts, sizes of firms, and the exchange on which their equities are traded. Despite the observation that new issues discounts tend to be larger for equities of firms traded on exchanges with lower listing requirements, there is little evidence that the differences in discounts are affected by firm size.

Citation

Ayling, D. (1990), "The Small Firms Effect on New Issues of Common Stocks When Listing Requirements Differ Between Exchanges", Managerial Finance, Vol. 16 No. 6, pp. 33-39. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb013658

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