This paper introduces, analyzes, and values a new form of contingent convertible (CoCo), a Call Option Enhanced Reverse Convertible (COERC). Issued as a bond, it converts to new shareholders' equity if a bank's market value of capital falls below a pre-specified trigger. The COERC avoids the...

We study right offerings around the world, using a sample of 8,238 rights offers announced during 1995-2008 in 69 countries. Although shareholders prefer having the option to trade rights, issuers deliberately restrict tradability in 38% of the offerings. We argue that firms restrict rights...

Bidders have an incentive to pay with stock when their shares are overvalued, but target firms should be reluctant to accept such overvalued payment. In a sample of 2,978 acquisitions, we find that stock payment is readily accepted only when the bidder can justify the financing decision in terms...

This study aims to test empirically how contingent convertible (CoCo) bond prices are affected by the main theoretical determinants and design features. The theoretical framework used in this paper is the Equity Derivatives Model suggested by De Spiegeleer and Schoutens [2012]. We test for the...

This study aims to test empirically how contingent convertible (CoCo) bond prices are affected by the main theoretical determinants and design features. The theoretical framework used in this paper is the Equity Derivatives Model suggested by De Spiegeleer and Schoutens [2012]. We test for the...

We document a U-shaped relation between long-run excess returns after buyback authorization announcements and firm centrality in the input-output trade flow network. We rationalize this finding in a model in which investors are endowed with a large but finite capacity for analyzing firms....

We find that board gender diversity increases the likelihood that firms announce a buy-back but long-term excess returns are signficantly smaller when there is larger female representation on the board. This is consistent with the governance hypothesis: gender diversity makes it more likely that...

The buyback anomaly survives when using the five factor Fama and French (2015) and the four factor Stambaugh and Yuan (2016) models: buyback announcements are followed by positive long-term excess returns that are positively related to (idiosyncratic) volatility, inconsistent with the low...

This paper uses the 2013 fiscal cliff as a natural experiment to examine how the political affiliation of the CEO affected a firm's response to an expected increase in personal taxes on dividends. Firms could avoid such additional taxes by paying extra dividends and accelerating dividends in the...

The authors follow the methodology of a U.S.-based study to compare determinants of the financing choices of European and American acquirers. Differences in bank dependence and ownership concentration between Europe and the U.S. are potentially important for the financing decision.The authors'...