A study on the relationship between corporate governance and pricing for initial public offerings: The application of artificial neural networks

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. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010.