Lee, Chin Chong and Poon, Wai Ching and Sinnakkannu, Jothee (2014) Why are rights offers in Hong Kong so different? Pacific Basin Finance Journal, 26. pp. 176-197. ISSN 0927-538X
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Investors react adversely to the announcements of rights offers in Hong Kong and the abnormal return of rights offers on the announcement day is −12.10%. After taking price discounts, underwriting fees and abnormal returns into consideration, the total direct and indirect costs of the seasoned issuers of rights offers are tremendously high. The cross-sectional analysis shows that investors react more adversely to the issuers of rights offers with lower growth prospects, higher free cash flows, larger issue scales, lower pre-issuance stock run up and higher debt capacity. Our empirical result also indicates that cash-rich firms with fewinvestment opportunities and firmswith poor quality in terms of lower market-to-book ratio and larger price discounts choose rights offers over private equity placements. All this evidence supports that agency costs and private benefits of control matter in equity financing.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HG Finance |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Business |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email masilah.mansor@newinti.edu.my |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Apr 2016 09:45 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Sep 2016 05:16 |
| URI: | http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/id/eprint/167 |
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