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...

This paper examines the role of repeat interactions between placement agents (investment banks) and investors in the initial pricing of convertible bonds. Under the assumption that attracting repeat investors can reduce search frictions in primary issue markets, we test the hypothesis that...

We review the literature on wealth effects associated with the announcements of convertible bond and warrant-bond offerings. The findings of 35 event studies, which include 84 sub-samples and 6,310 announcements, are analysed using meta-analysis. We find a mean cumulative abnormal return of...