Graduation Year
2007
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree
Ph.D.
Degree Granting Department
Business Administration
Major Professor
Jianping Qi, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Scott Besley, D.B.A.
Committee Member
Christos Pantzalis, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Ninon Sutton, Ph.D.
Keywords
Initial public offers, Spinning, Grandstanding, Governance, Access to capital, Underpricing, Long-run performance
Abstract
This dissertation includes two chapters that investigate the role venture capitalists (VCs) play in the underpricing and in the long-run performance of IPOs. The first chapter focuses on the underpricing of IPOs and attempts to determine the role that VCs play in this underpricing process. The evidence is consistent with a view that VCs agree to underpricing to ascertain benefits from both "grandstanding" and "spinning." The second chapter examines the long-run performance of IPOs and tries to determine the role that VCs play in the development of IPOs. Here, the evidence suggests that VC-backed IPOs appear to have better access to capital than non-VC-backed IPOs, but the long-run performance of VC-backed IPOs is generally mixed.
Scholar Commons Citation
Flagg, Donald, "Two Essays on Venture Capital: What Drives the Underpricing of Venture CapitalBacked IPOs and Do Venture Capitalists Provide Anything More than Money?" (2007). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/706
