TY - BOOK AU - Mahmoud Moustafa Sayed Autify AU - Ali Hafez Mansour , TI - Determinants of initial public offering of stocks : : Case of Egypt 1998 - 2008 / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mahmoud Moustafa Sayed Autify , KW - Initial Public Offering (IPO) KW - IPO Pricing Mechanisms KW - Underwriting N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Economics and Political Science - Department of Economics; Issued also as CD N2 - The objective of the study is to identify the determinants of Initial Public Offering in Egypt over the period from 1998 to 2008 . The main question of the study is why there is a fluctuation in the number of Egyptian Private Companies that have IPOs ? The study depends on the ex - ante and ex - post analysis of the IPO determinants and finds that the main objective of the going public is to finance growth while overcoming financing constraints is the main motive of the private firms to choose the going public option in order to achieve the growth objective UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -