“…Within the medium–long‐term perspective, we consider the stock performance achieved by the firm against its market within a perspective of 12, 24, and 36 months after the IPO, which has been widely recognized in literature as fundamental milestones for the evaluation of firms’ stock performance (Aggarwal, Prabhala, & Puri, 2002; Gompers, Ishii, & Metrick, 2003). Nevertheless, since a significant strand of literature has focused attention upon the issue of “post‐IPO survival” (Carpentier & Suret, 2011; Chancharat et al, 2012; Cirillo, Mussolino, Romano, & Viganò, 2017; Espenlaub, Khurshed, & Mohamed, 2012; Espenlaub, Khurshed, Mohamed, & Saadouni, 2016; Guo & Brooks, 2009; Jain & Kini, 1999; Pour, 2015), we decided to consider that alternative and innovative indicator of the “success” of an IPO within a long‐run perspective, as the circumstance that a company remain listed, surviving on the capital market. By this way, similarly to Cirillo et al, 2017, we apply a Cox proportional hazard model (Chancharat et al, 2012) to the variable Survival , as defined by the time interval (in years) from IPO date to the year of delisting or to the end of the observation period (2018) for surviving IPOs.…”