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Liquidity Costs and Stock Price Response to Convertible Security Calls

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  • Mazzeo, Michael A
  • Moore, William T

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Firms' announcements to call in-the-money convertible securities for redemption essentially force their conversion into common stock, and such announcements are generally met with significant reductions in the calling firms' equity values. An explanation based on liquidity costs is advanced and tested. The explanation implies that investors who choose to sell their shares early in the conversion period bear liquidity costs by selling at reduced prices. Consistent with the explanation, the average share price decline is short-lived, lasting most of the conversion period. Thus, a component of the call announcement effect appears to be due to liquidity costs. Copyright 1992 by University of Chicago Press.

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  • Mazzeo, Michael A & Moore, William T, 1992. "Liquidity Costs and Stock Price Response to Convertible Security Calls," The Journal of Business, University of Chicago Press, vol. 65(3), pages 353-369, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:jnlbus:v:65:y:1992:i:3:p:353-69
    DOI: 10.1086/296575
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    1. Fields, L. Paige & Mais, Eric L. & Moore, William T., 1995. "Conversion-forcing security calls: Wealth transfers revisited," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 4(1), pages 17-27.
    2. Bechmann, Ken L., 2004. "Short sales, price pressure, and the stock price response to convertible bond calls," Journal of Financial Markets, Elsevier, vol. 7(4), pages 427-451, October.
    3. Duca, Eric & Dutordoir, Marie & Veld, Chris & Verwijmeren, Patrick, 2012. "Why are convertible bond announcements associated with increasingly negative issuer stock returns? An arbitrage-based explanation," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 36(11), pages 2884-2899.
    4. de Jong, Abe & Dutordoir, Marie & Verwijmeren, Patrick, 2011. "Why do convertible issuers simultaneously repurchase stock? An arbitrage-based explanation," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 100(1), pages 113-129, April.
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    7. Martin, Darius & Qiu, Junfeng & Zhang, Yongli, 2015. "Asymmetric information and conversion price reset policy: The case of Chinese convertible debt," The Journal of Economic Asymmetries, Elsevier, vol. 12(2), pages 133-141.
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    14. L. Paige Fields & William T. Moore, 1995. "Equity Valuation Effects Of Forced Warrant Exercise," Journal of Financial Research, Southern Finance Association;Southwestern Finance Association, vol. 18(2), pages 157-170, June.
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