An Essay on Financial Innovations: The Case of Instalment Receipts

36 Pages Posted: 23 Mar 2002

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Narat Charupat

McMaster University - DeGroote School of Business

Eliezer Z. Prisman

York University - Schulich School of Business

Date Written: November 2001

Abstract

We investigate the relative pricing of an innovated security called "instalment receipts" (IRs). IRs are securities that evidence the purchase of some underlying securities on an instalment basis. Theoretically, we show that investors with borrowing restrictions will be willing to pay for the leverage benefit embedded in IRs. We then provide an empirical support for our argument. The observed overpricing of IRs relative to their underlying securities implies that by using IRs, the issuers benefit from both an increase in demand and a reduction in the price concessions that they have to make to ensure the success of their offerings.

Keywords: instalment receipts, financial innovations, secondary offerings, borrowing restrictions

JEL Classification: G10, G12, G13, G20

Suggested Citation

Charupat, Narat and Prisman, Eliezer Z., An Essay on Financial Innovations: The Case of Instalment Receipts (November 2001). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=302242 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.302242

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