A truthful Screening Mechanism for Improving Information Asymmetry in Initial Public Offering Transactions

We propose a mechanism to deal with the asymmetric information which increases the phenomenon of underpricing in the Initial Public Offering (IPO) transactions. In this regard, we develop a truthful screening mechanism by which a screening agent could assess a firm that is going to be public during an IPO. A mathematical model is developed and solved to determine the incentives of these agencies so that they find it optimal to perform truthfully. We also pursue the case of cooperation of n such agents and compare it with the situation in which each agent works independently.