MARKET DISCOUNTS AND SHAREHOLDER GAINS FOR PLACING EQUITY PRIVATELY

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: HERTZEL, M; SMITH, RL
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF FINANCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1082
• DOI: 10.2307/2328908
• 发表日期: 1993
• 页码: 459-485
• 关键词: ownership; INFORMATION; intermediation; firm

摘要

Despite selling at substantial discounts, private placements of equity are associated with positive abnormal returns. We find evidence that discounts reflect information costs borne by private investors and abnormal returns reflect favorable information about firm value. Results are consistent with the role of private placements as a solution to the Myers and Majluf underinvestment problem and with the use of private placements to signal undervaluation. We also find some evidence of anticipated monitoring benefits from private sales of equity. For the smaller firms that comprise our sample, information effects appear to be relatively more important than ownership effects.