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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments May 30, 2008 erstellt
Description:
This paper presents new evidence on potential risk-based explanations for the low SEO returns in the year after the issue. Specifically, we analyse whether the issue leads to a long-term higher stock liquidity that implies that SEO stocks have lower expected return due to lower exposure to liquidity risk factor. Therefore, we investigate if Spanish SEO firms experience significant changes in long-term liquidity after the issue. Results suggest that SEO-firm liquidity increases significantly in the year after the issue. Finally, we explore the post-performance of SEO firms explicitly accounting for liquidity risk. In particular, we employ the three factor model by Fama and French (1993) extended in one additional liquidity factor based on the illiquidity measure proposed by Amihud (2002). Our results show that underperformance disappears when accounting for liquidity risk