Are They Still Called Late? The Effect of Notice Period on Calls of Convertible Bonds

Butler, Alexander W.; Altintig, Ayca

doi:10.2139/ssrn.394060

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Are They Still Called Late? The Effect of Notice Period on Calls of Convertible Bonds

24 Pages Posted: 7 May 2003

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Alexander W. Butler

Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business

Ayca Altintig

Claremont Colleges - Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management

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Date Written: April 4, 2003

Abstract

The notice period given to convertible bondholders affects the optimal call policy for convertible bonds. After accounting for the notice period, convertible bonds in our sample would have been optimally called when the stock was at about an 11% premium (median) relative to the conversion price. We find that convertible bonds are, on average, not called later than optimal. The average (median) excess call premium is only 2.65% (1.71%) for those bonds without binding call protection. These values are statistically indistinguishable from zero and are substantially less than the 26%-44% call premium found by previous researchers.

Keywords: Convertible bonds, call policy

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Butler, Alexander W. and Altintig, Z. Ayca, Are They Still Called Late? The Effect of Notice Period on Calls of Convertible Bonds (April 4, 2003). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=394060 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.394060