A Study on the Relation of Corporate Governance and Pricing for Initial Public Offerings

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between corporate governance and pricing for initial public offerings (IPOs). Empirical result finds that the prediction of pricing of IPOs with corporate governance added can have a rather higher degree of predicting accuracy than that of non governance added during the training and testing samples. Therefore, it can be observed that corporate governance mechanism can affect the pricing of IPOs

Authors:

• Chei-Chang Chiou
• Sen-Wei Wang
• Yu-Min Wang

Keywords:

• Artificial neural networks
• corporate governance
• initial public offerings.

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