Download or read book The Effect of Exchange listing on a Firm s Cost of Equity Capital written by Dan S. Dhaliwal and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cost of Equity and Exchange Listing written by Michel Dubois and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impact of Options Listing and Trading on the Cost of Debt Capital written by Mehdi khedmati and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The existing literature on options listing and trading volume has focused on the benefits of trading in options to shareholders only, arguing that stock options listing and subsequent trading volume improve the informational environment of equity market. While debt capital is a major part of firms' capital structure, the cost of debt capital implications of options listing and trading volume has been overlooked in the literature. Again, the extant literature shows that much of the benefits that shareholders might receive from options listing and trading volume stems from the informational advantage arising from increased trading by informed investors who possess private information in optioned firms compared to firms without listed options and increased activities of information intermediaries. This informational advantage should also benefit the lenders of the firms because options listing and trading volume facilitate access to more and higher quality information and also increase stock liquidity. Therefore, informational advantage of optioned firms should allow lenders to better assess the risk of default and facilitate more effective monitoring of debt agreements, which in return, lowers the rates of returns demanded by the lenders. Further, this informational advantage of options listing and options trading may be far more beneficial to lenders of young firms than old firms because young firms have shorter credit history in the market, thus, exposing their lenders to higher information asymmetry costs. This suggests that lenders could consider the age of borrowing firms as a risk factor when reacting to the informational advantages from options trading and deciding on the rate of return they demand on their lending. To empirically examine the above conjectures, I use three proxies of cost of debt capital comprising credit rating, interest rate on debt, and offering yield spread on new bond issues. My thesis documents the following main findings. First, the results show that all the three proxies used for cost of debt capital are negatively and statistically significantly associated with options listing. Second, the results from further tests on a restricted sample of firm-year observations with listed options show that all three proxies of cost of debt capital are negatively and statistically significantly associated with options trading volume. Third, the results of the analysis based on credit rating and interest rate proxies of cost of debt capital show that the reducing effect of options listing on the cost of debt capital gradually subsides over time, as firms accumulate a credit history in the capital market. Finally, the results of the analysis based on a restricted sample of firm-year observations with listed options and all three proxies of cost of debt capital show that that the reducing effect of options trading volume on the cost of debt capital gradually diminishes over time. The above results remain robust in most of the additional and robustness tests. My thesis contributes to the stream of literature that examines the effect of options listing and trading volume on the cost of capital by providing empirical evidence on the decreasing effect of options listing and options trading volume on the cost of debt capital. It also contributes to the extant literature on the determinants of the cost of debt capital by documenting that increased information quality stemming from options listing and trading volume is priced by lenders, i.e., they demand lower rate of return. Also, my thesis improves our understanding of the moderating influence of firm's age on the ex ante effect of information asymmetry and quality, proxied by options listing and trading volume, on the cost of debt capital. The findings of this thesis would inform firm managers that they may be able to access cheaper debt if they can influence options exchanges to select their firm for options listing, and also would be insightful for options exchanges so as to understand the critical implications their selection decisions may have in terms of influencing the firms' cost of debt capital.
Download or read book The Effect of Firm Imposed Insider Trading Restrictions on Cost of Equity Capital written by Hiu Lam Choy and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the impact of self-imposed blackout period insider trading restrictions on a firm's cost of equity capital. We investigate both cross-sectional differences between firms with blackout period restrictions versus those without such restrictions as well as the time-series impact of firms initiating such a restriction. Cross-sectionally, we find that firms with blackout period trading restrictions have lower cost of equity capital. Using a time-series analysis, we find that when firms initiate such a restriction, their costs of equity capital subsequently drop. In addition to the direct impact of the restriction, we also examine how the restriction affects the analyst following and management earnings forecast practice and how these changes in the information environment indirectly influence the cost of equity capital. We do not find a significant change in either analyst following or management forecast practices after the initiation of the blackout period restriction.
Download or read book Cost of Capital Effects and Changes in Growth Expectations Around U S Cross Listings written by Luzi Hail and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines whether cross-listing in the U.S. reduces foreign firms' costs of capital. While prior studies show that U.S. cross-listings are associated with substantial increases in firm value, the sources of these valuation effects are not well understood. We estimate cost of capital effects implied by market prices and analyst forecasts, which accounts for changes in growth expectations around cross-listings. We find strong evidence that firms with cross-listings on U.S. exchanges experience a significant decrease in their cost of capital between 70 to 120 basis points. These effects are sustained and still present after the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Consistent with the bonding hypothesis, we find smaller cost of capital reductions for firms that cross-list in the over-the-counter market and for exchange-listed firms from countries with stronger home-country institutions. For exchange-traded cross-listings, the reduction in cost of capital accounts for more than half of the increase in value around cross-listings, whereas for the other types of cross-listings the valuation effects are primarily attributable to contemporaneous revisions in growth expectations.
Download or read book Exchange Listing and the Cost of Equity Capital written by Susan M. Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Law and Finance written by Thorsten Beck and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New research suggests that cross-country differences in legal origin help explain differences in financial development. This paper empirically assesses two theories of why legal origin influences financial development. First, the political' channel stresses that (i) legal traditions differ in the priority they give to the rights of individual investors vis- ...-vis the state and (ii) this has repercussions for the development of property rights and financial markets. Second, the adaptability' channel holds that (i) legal traditions differ in their ability to adjust to changing commercial circumstances and (ii) legal systems that adapt quickly to minimize the gap between the contracting needs of the economy and the legal system's capabilities will foster financial development more effectively than would more rigid legal traditions. We use historical comparisons and cross-country regressions to assess the validity of these two channels. We find that legal origin matters for financial development because legal traditions differ in their ability to adapt efficiently to evolving economic conditions.
Download or read book Trading Company Shares at Multiple Stock Exchanges Costs and Benefits of U S Cross Listings written by Laura Kalinska and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 96/110, course: Principles of International Finance, language: English, abstract: This thesis project aims to test the hypothesis whether or not there exists enough empirical evidence to prove that companies from developed countries with well-functioning capital markets have seen deteriorating benefits from cross-listing in the United States. We find evidence that support our hypothesis in light of the significant number of European companies terminat-ing their U.S. cross-listings after requirements for deregistering listings from the U.S. became less stringent in the year 2007. The trend also continued with the number of cross-listings by companies from the developed world steadily declining during the subsequent five years. The most cited reasons for cross-listing in the United States, such as greater access to investors, liquidity, a higher valuation and thus a lower cost of capital seems not to hold as strongly anymore. At least not for companies that come from countries where its capital markets have experienced a steady development in corporate governance standards so as to match that of the United States. Evidence point to the fact that the benefits that held for all non U.S. firms still hold strongly only for those companies coming from emerging economies and whose equity market standards are still well below that of stock exchanges in the United States.
Download or read book Business Behavior written by William J. Baumol and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Competition and Co Operation Among Exchanges written by Thomas J. Chemmanur and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We analyze firms' choice between exchanges to list their equity (including multiple listings), and exchanges' choice of listing standards for firms which apply for listing, in an environment of competition and co-operation among exchanges. We model an equity market characterized by asymmetric information, where outsiders can reduce their informational disadvantage relative to insiders by producing (noisy) information about firms at a cost. Exchanges are populated by two kinds of investors: sophisticated investors, with a cost advantage in producing information (low-cost investors), and ordinary investors, without such a cost-advantage (high-cost investors); the proportions of these two kinds of investors vary across exchanges. While firms are short-lived agents, exchanges are long-lived, value-maximizing agents, whose stringency in their listing and disclosure standards evolve over time. Exchanges also use their listing standards as a tool in competing with other exchanges for listings by firms. However, outsiders can partially infer the rigor of an exchange's listing policy by studying the subsequent performance of firms which have obtained listing there. The listing standards chosen by an exchange therefore affects its reputation. The listing choices of firms between exchanges, the valuation effects of listings on firm equity, and exchanges' listing standards emerge endogenously in equilibrium. Our model has implications for: the relationship between firm characteristics and the benefits from cross (and dual) listing; the price effects of cross listings; the relationship between cross listing and financial analyst following; the relationship between an exchange's reputation and its listing standards; the impact of competition on an exchange's listing standard; the impact of an alliance between exchanges on the listing standards of the allied exchange and of exchanges competing with it; and for the optimal regulation of exchanges.
Download or read book Implication of Securities Class Actions for Cost of Equity Capital and Shareholder Wealth written by Sudheer Chava and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We investigate the effects of the filing of securities class actions on firms' cost of equity capital and shareholder wealth. We posit that class action litigation increases perceived uncertainties about the firm and leads to an increase in its cost of equity capital. Using three models for estimating the cost of equity capital, we document increases in firms' cost of equity capital following filing of the class actions. Our analysis indicates that the majority of the value loss following filing of class actions arises from the increase in the cost of equity capital while only a small fraction of the loss arises from downward revisions of future earnings. We also find that the increases in the cost of equity capital are higher when accounting issues and audit firms are involved, when the lawsuits have higher merit, and when firms are smaller. Finally, we document that the settlement amounts are not significantly higher than the short-term market value loss resulting from the filing, suggesting that investors do not receive a significant net benefit from filing a class action lawsuit.
Download or read book SEC Monthly Statistical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book SEC Monthly Statistical Review written by United States. Securities and Exchange Commission and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Capital Market Working Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Capital Structure and Firm Value written by Dr. Maloth Raghu Ram and published by Readworthy. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capital Structure decision is one of the crucial decisions to be taken by a company. There are divergent views regarding Capital Structure and Firm Value. There is dearth of studies in the area of Pharma Industry regarding Capital Structure and Firm Value. Therefore, the present study seeks to answer the following questions: what are the factors determining the Capital Structure decision in Pharma sector in India? What is the relationship between select variable and company value? What is the impact of leverage on stock price volatility of Pharma Companies? Period of the study is eleven years from 2005 to 2015. The panel data regression model has been employed. It can be concluded that Debt-Equity Ratio has negative impact on capital structure of a company. It was revealed from the findings that majority of the select variables have significant impact on the capital structure. The study also brings to light the fact that leverage effect is dominant in the stock market. Findings of the present study are useful in gaining valuable insights into the intricacies of capital structure, firm value and leverage effect. The study is useful to finance managers, investors, researchers and also to academicians doing research in the area of corporate finance.
Download or read book Journal of Business Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commercial Banks Trust Departments and Concentration of Power written by Donald Eugene Farrar and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
