STRUCTURAL REVIEWS OF INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS: A PATH AHEAD.

Initial Public Offering (IPO) is a kind of public offering in the form of companies' share which are sold to investors. An IPO is underwritten by one or more investment banks. These banks help in listing the shares on stock exchanges. The purpose of this research paper is to get a comprehensive analysis of previous research studies on the performance of IPO, which may provide the present growth and scope of research work in the field. 106 research studies on IPOs have been reviewed and outlined all the studies based on of their tools, methodology, year of the study, sample period, sample countries taken, type of studies, and sources of the study. For the present study, research articles published from 1998 to 2018 were selected for review. The outcomes of the analysis show that the number of studies on IPO rose continuously over the last seven years. The conclusion drawn from this paper may provide helpful facts regarding the following reviews of the IPO to investors, researchers, shareholders, and policymakers for taking important decisions. This study can be further refined by including the other classifications such as Google trend. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]