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Understanding Stock Price Behavior around the Time of Equity Issues / Robert A. Korajczyk, Deborah J. Lucas, Robert L. McDonald.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Korajczyk, Robert A.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w3170.
- NBER working paper series no. w3170
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1989.
- Summary:
- It is well-documented that stock prices rise significantly prior to an equity issue, and fall upon announcement of the issue. We expand on earlier studies by using a large sample which includes OTC firms, by examining the cross-sectional properties of the price rise, and by using accounting data to track the pattern of debt ratios and Tobin's q around the time of equity issues. We consider a number of explanations for our results, and conclude that the data is largely consistent with informational models in which managers are asymmetrically informed about the value of the firm. Surprisingly, debt ratios do not increase prior to equity issues, suggesting that strained debt capacity is not the main reason for equity issues. The behavior of Tobin's q is consistent with equity issues being used to finance new investments.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- November 1989.
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