Contracting costs and the window of opportunity for straight debt issues |
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Authors: | Sudha Krishnaswami Devrim Yaman |
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Institution: | 1. College of Business Administration, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148, USA;2. Haworth College of Business, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA |
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Abstract: | We analyze whether fluctuation in economy-wide factors cause time-series variation in the contracting costs of moral hazard, adverse selection, and financial distress for a sample of straight debt issues. We find that the announcement period abnormal returns to debt issues are more negative in periods of higher interest rates and in industry downturns. When we partition the impact of each issue- and firm-specific measure of contracting costs across high and low levels of each economy-wide variable, we find that only the measures of agency cost are significant in general, and measures of financial distress become relevant for those debt issues that constitute a leverage increase for the firms. |
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Keywords: | G32 G30 |
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