Why Do Firms Issue Equity?
dc.contributor.author | Dittmar, Amy K. | |
dc.contributor | Thakor, Anjan V. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-05-18T14:28:59Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-05-18T14:28:59Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
dc.identifier | 1019 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/39141 | |
dc.description.abstract | We develop and test a new theory of security issuance that is consistent with the puzzling stylized fact that firms issue equity when their stock prices are high. The theory also generates new predictions. Our theory predicts that managers use equity to finance projects when they believe that investors’ views about project payoffs are likely to be aligned with theirs, thus maximizing the likelihood of agreement with investors. Otherwise, they use debt. We find strong empirical support for our theory and document its incremental explanatory power over other security-issuance theories like market timing and time-varying adverse selection. | en |
dc.format.extent | 635319 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Journal of Finance | en |
dc.subject | equity | en |
dc.subject.classification | Finance | en |
dc.title | Why Do Firms Issue Equity? | en |
dc.type | Working Paper | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Economics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Business | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Washington University, St. Louis | en |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/39141/1/1019.pdf | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/39141/4/1019.pdf | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Business, Stephen M. Ross School of - Working Papers Series |
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