Kan risken för finansiell kris förutsäga första dagens avkastning vid börsintroduktioner?
This thesis studies the relationship between risk and the first day returns of Initial Public Offerings (IPO) by assessing the risk of each issuing company with a risk model that combine financial key ratios of importance. The study is based on 92 IPO?s that were made on the Stockholm OMX stock exchange during the period of 1997-2009. The point of departure was to investigate if the uncertainty created by the asymmetric information between investors and the issuing firm could be captured by predicting the possibility of failure in the future. This has been studied by applying Skogsvik?s probability of failure model on the 92 issuing firms. The relationship between first day returns and risk were investigated through multiple regressions. The conclusion of the study is that there is no statistically significant relationship between probability of failure and first day returns.