Initial Public Offerings v České republice a ve světě

Initial public offerings as a source of obtaining the additional capital usually used for financing new projects or further development of companies are popular especially in the United States and Great Britain. There is not such a tradition of initial pubic offerings in the Czech Republic where companies usually prefer to use credit resources prevailingly from the banks. The aim of this paper is to define initial public offerings not only on the general basis but also specifically on the stock markets in France and in Spain. This paper focuses on the Euronext Paris stock market in France and the Madrid stock market in Spain. Firstly, the basic advantages and disadvantages of IPOs are defined in conjunction with the principal IPO anomalies. Secondly, this paper gives a general outline of the IPO process in the Czech Republic. Consequently, this paper presents an overview of the IPO activity in France, Spain and in Europe on the whole in the past few years. Furthermore, it defines particular conditions of admission to the French and Spanish stock markets specified above. Concerning the affinity of the number and total offering value of the French and Spanish IPOs and the business cycle, this paper endeavours to prove certain relation using the correlation analysis. The IPO process in France and in Spain is demonstrated on the specific examples of one French and one Spanish IPO.