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The Signaling Effect of Durations between Equity and Debt Issues
Author(s) -
Bilinski Pawel,
Mohamed Abdulkadir
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
financial markets, institutions and instruments
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.386
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1468-0416
pISSN - 0963-8008
DOI - 10.1111/fmii.12027
Subject(s) - issuer , debt , business , equity (law) , monetary economics , financial system , equity capital markets , finance , economics , private equity , political science , law
This study examines whether durations between equity and debt offerings allow investors to identify firms that are more likely to time issues of overvalued securities. We show that firms with higher stock overpricing are more likely to quickly issue both seasoned equity and debt following the previous capital acquisition. Investors understand issuers’ incentives to quickly return to the capital market and react less favorably to equity and debt issues that follow shortly after the previous offering. Together, the results show that durations between equity and debt issues provide valuable signals to investors on whether the issuer is likely to be timing the market.