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Does Financial Market Structure Affect the Cost of Raising Capital?

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  • Brugler, James
  • Comerton-Forde, Carole
  • Hendershott, Terrence

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We provide evidence on market structure and the cost of raising capital by examining changes in market structure in U.S. equity markets. Only the Order Handling Rules (OHR) of the Nasdaq, the one reform that reduced institutional trading costs, lowered the cost of raising capital. Using a difference-in-differences framework relative to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) that exploits the OHR’s staggered implementation, we find that the OHR reduced the underpricing of seasoned equity offerings by 1–2 percentage points compared with a pre-OHR average of 3.6%. The effect is the largest in stocks with the largest reduction in institutional trading costs after the OHR.

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  • Brugler, James & Comerton-Forde, Carole & Hendershott, Terrence, 2021. "Does Financial Market Structure Affect the Cost of Raising Capital?," Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Cambridge University Press, vol. 56(5), pages 1771-1808, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jfinqa:v:56:y:2021:i:5:p:1771-1808_9
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