DEBT REFUNDING AND SHAREHOLDER WEALTH: THE PRICE EFFECTS OF DEBT‐FOR‐DEBT EXCHANGE OFFER ANNOUNCEMENTS
作者:
W. Bruce Johnson,
期刊:
Financial Review
(WILEY Available online 1988)
卷期:
Volume 23,
issue 1
页码: 1-23
ISSN:0732-8516
年代: 1988
DOI:10.1111/j.1540-6288.1988.tb00771.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
ABSTRACTThis study examines the impact of debt refunding on common stock prices for a sample of 48 exchange offers announced from 1970 through 1981. Exchange offer announcements do not have a significant impact on average common stock returns but appear to produce idiosyncratic share price effects. Refunding‐induced price effects were unrelated to several exchange offer characteristics including tax shield increases, exchange offer premia, and transaction costs of refunding. Common stock excess returns werenegativelyrelated to reductions in debt service payments and relaxation of dividend payment constraints. Thus, the evidence is consistent with theories predicting that certain debt refundings generate negative information‐signaling price effe
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