Long-Run Performance and Impact of War on Risk-Return Characteristics of Initial Public Offerings in an Emerging Market: Evidence from Colombo Stock Exchange
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2018
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9th International Conference on Business and Information (ICBI-2018), Department of Management Studies and Toc H Institute of Science and Technology, India, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
Abstract
This study analyses the long-run performance of 34 Sri Lankan Initial Public Offerings listed
during 2000 – 2014 and focuses on the changes in risk-return characteristic since there is only
handful of prior investigates regarding the impact of civil war on IPO risk-return changes
relatively to developed markets. The first objective is to provide evidence on long-run
underperformance or over performance. Hence, IPOs underperformed the benchmark in the
long-run subject to Event-time Approach. The second objective is detecting the changes in the
performance of IPOs relatively to Market-adjusted-Average Cumulative Abnormal Returns
and Buy-and-Hold Abnormal Returns. Thirdly, the analysis discusses how risk-return
characteristics differ between two IPO samples. Post-war IPOs appear to be less risky while
pre-war IPOs revealing higher risky and subject to non-systematic risk in the long-run, yet with
same magnitude of returns. Authors believe that investors can use this information to identify
profitable strategies to overcome long-run underperformance
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Initial Public Offerings, Long-run performance, Cumulative abnormal returns, Buy-and-hold abnormal returns, Risk-return characteristics
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Hewage, J.K. and Fernando, C.S.P.K. (2018). Long Run Performance and Impact of War on Risk-Return Characteristics of Initial Public Offerings in an Emerging Market: Evidence from Colombo Stock Exchange. 9th International Conference on Business and Information (ICBI-2018), Department of Management Studies and Toc H Institute of Science and Technology, India, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.p.01