User profiles for John C. Yeoman

John Yeoman

Professor of Finance, University of North Georgia
Verified email at ung.edu
Cited by 142

The optimal spread and offering price for underwritten securities

JC Yeoman - Journal of Financial Economics, 2001 - Elsevier
The paper develops the net proceeds maximization theory explaining how the spread and
offering price are determined in all underwritten offerings in the US The theory yields solutions …

The promoter's role in ticket pricing: Implications of real options for optimal posted prices and rationing

SL Jones, JC Yeoman - Journal of Business Research, 2009 - Elsevier
We consider the problem of pricing event tickets for initial sale when demand is uncertain. It
is a standard industry practice for a performer to contract with a promoter who underwrites …

Internet auctions as a means of issuing financial securities: the case of the OpenIPO

SL Jones, JC Yeoman - Managerial Finance, 2008 - emerald.com
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the OpenIPO process, vis‐ą‐vis traditional
bookbuilding, and evaluate the suitability of the OpenIPO for various types of companies, …

Bias in estimating the systematic risk of extreme performers: Implications for financial analysis, the leverage effect, and long-run reversals

SL Jones, JC Yeoman - Journal of Corporate finance, 2012 - Elsevier
We show how bias can arise systematically in the beta estimates of extreme performers
when long-run return reversals are present and partly, or wholly, due to sign changes in …

Initial uncertainty and the risk of setting a fixed-offer price: Implications for the pricing of bookbuilt and best-efforts IPOs

SL Jones, JC Yeoman - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2014 - Elsevier
We model the risk of setting the required fixed-offer price in an IPO given initial uncertainty
about value, as well as costs of over and underpricing. Assuming that the goal of issuers in …

Problems in Measuring Contrarian Performance with Jensen's Alpha: A Reconciliation of Real-Time and Event-Time Tests

SL Jones, JC Yeoman - Available at SSRN 249057, 2001 - papers.ssrn.com
Much of the early research on contrarian performance adjusts for risk using a Jensen's
alpha estimated with in-sample returns in either real time or event time. The use of in-sample …

The economics of using a charitable remainder trust to fund a retirement portfolio

JC Yeoman - The Journal of Wealth Management, 2014 - search.proquest.com
JOHN C. … JOHN C. YEOMAN is associate professor of finance at the University of North
Georgia's Mike Cottrell College of Business in Dahlonega, GA. jyeoman@ung.edu …

The risk of setting a fixed-offer price and underpricing from the perspective of book-building underwriters and best-efforts issuers

SL Jones, JC Yeoman - Available at SSRN 1780330, 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Initial uncertainty about the value of IPOs combined with costs of over and underpricing
make it risky to set fixed-offer prices. Assuming issuers seek to maximize proceeds net of the …

Yeoman Independence and the Market: Social Status and Economic Development in Antebellum North Carolina

PD Escott - The North Carolina Historical Review, 1989 - JSTOR
yeoman attitudes—calls for as much behavioral data as possible. This essay examines yeoman
behavior (and by implication yeoman … state during a period when yeoman farmers had to …

Chaucer's warrior bowman: The roles and equipment of the Knight's Yeoman

KJ Thompson - The Chaucer Review, 2006 - JSTOR
… portrait of the Yeoman focuses on … Yeoman reveals, however, a charac ter of much more
descriptive complexity than previously acknowledged. By better understanding the Yeoman's