How Investment Bankers Determine the Offer Price and Allocation of New Issues

Authors

  • Lawrence M. Benveniste Boston College
  • Paul A. Spindt University of North Carolina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1016/1057-0810(91)90014-P

Abstract

The authors investigate how investment bankers use indications of interest from their client investors to price and allocate new issues. They model the process as an auction constructed to induce asymmetrically informed investors to reveal what they know to the underwriter. The analysis yields a number of empirical implications, including that new issues will be underpriced and that distributional priority will be given to an underwriter’s regular investors. The authors also find that tension between an underwriter’s propensity to presell an issue and an issuing firm’s desire to obtain maximum proceeds affects the type of underwriting contract chosen. Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 24,No.2(October 1989),pp.343-361.(Reprinted withpermission of the Journal of Economic Literature.)

Published

1991-06-30

How to Cite

Benveniste, L. M., & Spindt , P. A. (1991). How Investment Bankers Determine the Offer Price and Allocation of New Issues. Financial Services Review, 1(1), 81. https://doi.org/10.1016/1057-0810(91)90014-P

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (1991): Financial Services Review

Section

Abstracts of Articles on Individual Financial Management

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