After the cooling off of IPOs since the dot-com bubble, Google has rekindled their fire. Initial Public Offerings contains new articles exclusive to this reader by leading academics from around the world dealing with quantitative and qualitative analyses of this increasingly popular and important area of finance. Articles address new methods of IPO performance, international IPOs, IPO evaluation, IPO underwriting, evaluation and book-building. Although numerous articles are technical in nature, with econometric and statistical models, this book pays particular attention to the understanding and the applicability of the results as well as theoretical development in this area. Initial Public Offerings is a wide-ranging, innovative and accessible reference for both practitioners and scholars alike. Part of the Quantitative Finance Series.