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Competing for Securities Underwriting Mandates: Banking Relationships and Analyst Recommendations
Author(s) -
LJUNGQVIST ALEXANDER,
MARSTON FELICIA,
WILHELM WILLIAM J.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the journal of finance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 18.151
H-Index - 299
eISSN - 1540-6261
pISSN - 0022-1082
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2006.00837.x
Subject(s) - underwriting , mandate , investment banking , business , issuer , endogeneity , equity (law) , debt , competitor analysis , sample (material) , incentive , monetary economics , actuarial science , accounting , finance , economics , microeconomics , marketing , econometrics , chemistry , chromatography , political science , law
ABSTRACT We investigate whether analyst behavior influenced banks' likelihood of winning underwriting mandates for a sample of 16,625 U.S. debt and equity offerings in 1993–2002. We control for the strength of the issuer's investment banking relationships with potential competitors for the mandate, prior lending relationships, and the endogeneity of analyst behavior and the bank's decision to provide analyst coverage. Although analyst behavior was influenced by economic incentives, we find no evidence that aggressive analyst behavior increased their bank's probability of winning an underwriting mandate. The main determinant of the lead‐bank choice is the strength of prior underwriting and lending relationships.