16 (2007) 116 – 135 Investor interest‚ trading volume‚ and the choice of IPO mechanism in France Salim Chahine * American University of Beirut‚ The Suliman S. Olayan School of Business‚ Bliss Street‚ P.O.Box: 11-0236‚ Beirut‚ Lebanon Received 3 February 2004 Available online 7 November 2005 Abstract This paper investigates the relationship between underpricing and investor interest level prior to and after the IPO date. Empirical tests show a significant 3-day buy-and-hold abnormal return
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watching movie in theatre‚ while the individual renting the movie still has to pay a fee‚ he or she can watch the movie as many times as they would like‚ with as many people as they like in the allotted rental time frame. Online services such as Netflix and Hulu are also an option‚ for a modest monthly fee an individual is allowed access to a wide selection of movie titles at all times without stepping outside. There are drawbacks to movie rental and streaming; most major distribution and production
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This essay will critique the competitive strategy of Netflix‚ using two equally weighted questions‚ and using where appropriate cited theories‚ concepts and techniques discussed on the course and supporting and cited sources of evidence. Netflix was founded in Scott’s Valley‚ California in 1997. Netflix Inc. is a provider of on-demand Internet streaming media available to viewers in all of North America‚ South America and parts of Europe‚ and of flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States‚ where mailed
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IPO (Initial Public Offering) of PT. Adaro Energy Tbk. Execution IPO (Initial Public Offering) PT. Adaro Energy Tbk. has been awaited by capital market actors. Coal Price that penetrate US$ 215 per ton on July 2008 in the global market result capital market actors very interest to buy share at company of coal mining. Particularly PT Adaro Energy Tbk. is company of coal mining that has biggest reserve in Indonesia.1 Listing in Indonesia Effect Exchange (BEI) is executed on 16 July 2008. In
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studies of two companies Netflix and Blockbuster allows for an easy understanding of how and why this industry has changed. At its peak Blockbuster Rentals employed 60‚000 people and had more than 8000 stores worldwide in 2004. This was primarily the only way that we could consume movies after they had been released‚ other than directly purchasing them. During this time period the internet was still in its infancy and understanding how it would change our lives in so
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“Moral hazard‚ asymmetric information and IPO lockups” by Yung and Zender (2010) We will first examine the development of various hypothesis surrounding lock-ups‚ this will be followed by the empirical results supporting the use of proxy variables and we explain how they were used to test the variety of hypotheses. Particular attention will be paid to the separate subsamples of firms‚ and the data concerning the differential correlation between underpricing and lockup length across the subsamples
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Two large state-owned enterprises are swooping on the Hong Kong market with their long-awaited IPOs almost simultaneously this week‚ and the prospect of two large offerings is likely to cast a pall over the city’s stock market. The decisions by Sinopec Engineering and China Galaxy Securities to launch their roadshows separately came after the two large SOEs‚ tightly controlled by the Chinese government‚ both managed to secure strong support from some key cornerstone investors. Sinopec Engineering
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Blockbuster vs. Netflix: Which will win out? Blockbuster’s business model is selling and renting out videos/DVDS‚ and offering what the consumer wants in one of its 9‚100 brick and mortar locations in 25 countries. The business model was a huge success‚ dominating the video rental market by 40% of the U.S rental market. Now the industry and technology forces‚ that is challenging Blockbuster’s business model is the integration of the rentals online. Netflix has made this challenge by offering customers
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Week 4: NetFlix Did Netflix do the same job for consumers that Blockbuster did? How did that evolve over time? When NetFlix entered the market‚ it sought to address voids left by brick and mortar video rental outlets. They focused on offering the first households to obtain DVD players with DVD rental content. Initially‚ Netflix adopted the pay-per-rental model. However‚ the online and mail format of Neflix’s distribution model was less appealing to customers. It was less convenient – with only
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UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY‚ SYDNEY FACULTY OF BUSINESS GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT Written Case Analysis Case 8 Netflix versus Blockbuster versus Video-on-Demand Autumn 2007 By Completed as part of the requirements for Strategic Management (21715) Contents Executive Summary p. 3 Introduction p. 4 Volkswagen AG Pre-1993 p. 4 Issues facing the auto industry and Volkswagen AG in the 1990’s p. 5 Financial performance between
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