Equity private placements, liquid assets, and firm value
This paper finds wealth enhancement from equity private placement issuances where liquid assets are provided to slack-poor companies. This result runs counter to the expected Jensen's (1986) excess free-cash-flow problem, where the predominant findings of numerous studies include negative wealth effects from externally financed liquidity enhancements. We also find greater announcement-period returns for smaller firms and firms with better recent performance. Investors appear to view either of these factors, together with the private investor’s willingness to provide additional liquidity, as an asymmetric information release on the firm’s viability and likelihood of improved performance. Copyright Springer 2005
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2005
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Authors: | Brooks ; Graham, J. |
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Journal of Economics and Finance. - Springer, ISSN 1055-0925. - Vol. 29.2005, 3, p. 321-336
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