Why are rights offers in Hong Kong so different?
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 i...
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| author | Lee, Chin Chong Poon, Wai Ching Sinnakkannu, Jothee |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | intimal-1672016-09-23T05:16:56Z http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/167/ Why are rights offers in Hong Kong so different? Lee, Chin Chong Poon, Wai Ching Sinnakkannu, Jothee HG Finance 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. Elsevier 2014 Article PeerReviewed 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 http://www.journals.elsevier.com/pacific-basin-finance-journal 10.1016/j.pacfin.2013.12.004 |
| spellingShingle | HG Finance Lee, Chin Chong Poon, Wai Ching Sinnakkannu, Jothee Why are rights offers in Hong Kong so different? |
| title | Why are rights offers in Hong Kong so different? |
| title_full | Why are rights offers in Hong Kong so different? |
| title_fullStr | Why are rights offers in Hong Kong so different? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Why are rights offers in Hong Kong so different? |
| title_short | Why are rights offers in Hong Kong so different? |
| title_sort | why are rights offers in hong kong so different? |
| topic | HG Finance |
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