During recent years, an increasing number of corporations have decided to raise external capital via markets for hybrid securities. Hybrid securities share characteristics of common stock and straight debt and appear in different forms, such as convertible debt, mandatory convertibles or...

We examine how information disclosures from private firms affect analysts’ public firm earnings forecasts. On one hand, private firm disclosures allow analysts to better understand industry-wide business conditions, enabling them to forecast the peer public firm earnings more accurately. On...