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Accelerated Equity Offers and Firm Quality

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  • Don M. Autore
  • Irena Hutton
  • Tunde Kovacs

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A series of deregulatory reforms has promoted accelerated equity issuance at the expense of adequate time for underwriter and market scrutiny. Today the majority of publicly listed companies can raise equity on a moment's notice, but many eligible issuers choose to allow additional time for scrutiny. We hypothesise that issuers with less favourable inside information (i.e. lower quality issuers) prefer to avoid the pre†issue scrutiny that could reveal their inside information and are therefore more likely to accelerate their offer. We find supportive evidence using measures of stock valuation and earnings quality as proxies for firm quality. The results suggest that investors are slow to capitalise the information embedded in the speed of issuance.

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  • Don M. Autore & Irena Hutton & Tunde Kovacs, 2011. "Accelerated Equity Offers and Firm Quality," European Financial Management, European Financial Management Association, vol. 17(5), pages 835-859, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:eufman:v:17:y:2011:i:5:p:835-859
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.2011.00597.x
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