Impact of Market Transparency and Investors’ Attention on Long-Term Performance of IPO

Abstract

This research aims to explore and analyze the impact of market transparency and investors’ attention on long-term performance of IPO. The integration of these two variables will help us analyze their independent as well as moderating effects and contribute to assess their influence on the policy level. The evidence was collected Pakistan Stock exchange. The data encompassed 29 companies, who had their IPO from 2004 onwards. The data collection included six main variables, namely Market transparency and Investors’ attention being the independent variables (also tested for their moderation effect), underpricing being our Dependent variable and finally Firm size, B/M Ration and P/E ratio being or control variables. The estimators used to analyze our data, clearly indicated that the random effect model was the most suitable for our data set, thus concurring form the results it was clear our research concluded that investors’ attention and market transparency do in fact play a vital role in the performance of a particular Initial public offering