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Does market microstructure matter for corporate finance? Theory and evidence on seasoned equity offering decisions

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  • Cheung, William
  • Fung, Scott
  • Tam, Lewis

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This study presents a theoretical model and empirical analysis to examine how market microstructure affects Seasoned Equity Offering (SEO) decisions from the perspective of information production associated with market liquidity. We present two sets of new findings. First, the market illiquidity of a firm's stock (measured by price impact and bid-ask spread) has a significantly negative impact on the probability of SEO, as well as on the size of the offering. A decrease of the pre-issue price impact by one standard deviation is associated with an increase of normalized SEO proceeds of 9.7%. The impact of market illiquidity is larger when pre-SEO price is less informative. Second, SEO decision predicts a more informative stock price. Our results are robust to alternative measures of market liquidity, price informativeness and SEO.

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  • Cheung, William & Fung, Scott & Tam, Lewis, 2016. "Does market microstructure matter for corporate finance? Theory and evidence on seasoned equity offering decisions," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 60(C), pages 149-161.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:quaeco:v:60:y:2016:i:c:p:149-161
    DOI: 10.1016/j.qref.2015.06.003
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    1. Joachim Rojahn & Florian Zechser, 2022. "Ownership concentration, ownership identity and seasoned equity offerings probabilities: Evidence from Germany," Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 49(1-2), pages 274-296, January.
    2. Jonathan Batten & Xuan Vinh Vo, 2019. "Liquidity And Firm Value In An Emerging Market," The Singapore Economic Review (SER), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 64(02), pages 365-376, March.

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    Keywords

    Corporate financing decision; Market microstructure; Market liquidity;
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    JEL classification:

    • C25 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
    • G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading
    • G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill

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