The effect of information releases on the pricing and timing of equity issues

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Abstract

With time-varying adverse selection in the market for new equity issues, firms will prefer to issue equity when the market is most informed about the quality of the firm. This implies that equity issues tend to follow credible information releases. In addition, if the asymmetric in information increases over time between information releases, the price drop at the announcement of an equity issue should increase in the time since the last information release. Using earning releases as a proxy for informative events, we find evidence supporting these propositions.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)685-708
JournalReview of Financial Studies
Volume4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1991

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