The announcement impact of seasoned equity offerings on bondholder wealth

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1472-1480

  Elliott, William B ^a   Prevost, Andrew K ^b   Rao, Ramesh P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Excess bond returns; Information signaling; Security issuance; Wealth transfer hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349165036     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2009.02.011     Document Type: Article

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