Barucci, Emilio; Viva, Luca Del - In: Annals of Finance 9 (2013) 3, pp. 337-364
a company issuing a particular type of hybrid security: perpetual contingent capital, i.e., debt that converts into … contingent capital is analyzed. We investigate the instrument under different conversion rules: automatic or optimally chosen by … equity holders. We show that contingent capital reduces the coupon of straight debt and expected bankruptcy costs but can …