%0 Journal Article %T The effect of industry type on long-run performance of initial public offerings for privatized companies in the Iran %A Saeed Nouri Hoseinabadi %A Alaleh Yazdani %J Management Science Letters %D 2013 %I Growing Science %X In the current study, the effect of industry type on the long-run performance of stock pricing in the initial public offerings (IPOs) of privatized state-owned companies (SOEs) in Tehran Stock Exchange is studied. The proposed study applies long-run buy and hold return index of the stock. The sample population of the study includes the privatized SOEs present in TSE over the period 2001- 2006. The assessments of this study shows that long-run stock buy- and- hold return of the companies admitted in stock exchange is less than market¡¯s long-run return during the same period after 36 months and the industry type has impacted on long-run buy- and- hold return of the admitted companies. %K Privatization %K Initial public offerings (IPOs) %K Buy-and-hold abnormal %K return Stock return %K Industry type %U http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol3/msl_2012_326.pdf