Long-Run Seasoned Equity Offering Returns: Data Snooping, Model Misspecification, or Mispricing? A Costly Arbitrage Approach
34 Pages Posted: 10 Jul 2002
Date Written: October 2001
Abstract
This paper uses a new approach to assess return behavior after seasoned equity offerings. Our approach recognizes that sophisticated investors are motivated to correct mispricing, although the magnitude of their activity is influenced by arbitrage costs. This approach avoids inference problems due to model misspecification or data snooping. The evidence supports the contention that firms that conduct seasoned equity offerings are overpriced. Our findings imply that, since mispricing associated with seasoned equity offerings is persistent in the long-run, holding costs play an important role although transaction costs do not. In fact, holding costs dominate the size effect documented by previous research.
Keywords: Seaoned equity offerings, arbitrage costs
JEL Classification: G32
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Do you have negative results from your research you’d like to share?
Recommended Papers
-
Institutional Investors and Equity Prices
By Paul A. Gompers and Andrew Metrick
-
New Evidence on Stock Price Effects Associated with Charges in the S&P 500 Index
-
Limited Arbitrage in Mergers and Acquisitions
By Malcolm P. Baker and Serkan Savasoglu
-
The Demand for Stocks: An Analysis of IPO Auctions
By Shmuel Kandel (deceased), Oded Sarig, ...
-
Arbitrage Risk and the Book-to-Market Anomaly
By Ashiq Ali, Lee-seok Hwang, ...