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Is There Really a When-Issued Premium?

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  • Ezzell, John R.
  • Miles, James A.
  • Mulherin, J. Harold

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We use a unique set of equities in the when-issued market to provide new tests of the law of one price in financial markets. We compare the prices of when-issued and regular way shares of publicly traded subsidiaries and their parents around the time the subsidiaries are fully divested and we find that the when-issued shares of the subsidiary trade at a discount. Pricing differences stem from measurement factors such as exchange location and bid-ask clustering that bias the observed when-issued pricing differential away from zero. The remaining difference is due to asymmetric movements in bid and ask quotes in the two markets. We also find evidence of temporary price pressures on the date of execution of the spinoff of the subsidiary firms that bear resemblance to the pricing in the when-issued market. We interpret the evidence as consistent with the law of one price in the presence of transaction costs and microstructure phenomena.

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  • Ezzell, John R. & Miles, James A. & Mulherin, J. Harold, 2003. "Is There Really a When-Issued Premium?," Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Cambridge University Press, vol. 38(3), pages 611-634, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jfinqa:v:38:y:2003:i:03:p:611-634_00
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    1. Luc Renneboog & Christophe Spaenjers, 2011. "The Dutch Grey Market," De Economist, Springer, vol. 159(1), pages 25-40, March.
    2. Patro, Sukesh, 2008. "The evolution of ownership structure of corporate spin-offs," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 14(5), pages 596-613, December.
    3. Kiplan Womack, 2012. "Real Estate Mergers: Corporate Control & Shareholder Wealth," The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Springer, vol. 44(4), pages 446-471, May.
    4. Liu, Tingting & Wu, Juan (Julie), 2014. "Merger arbitrage short selling and price pressure," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 27(C), pages 36-54.

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