Forced warrant exercise should elicit a stock price reaction only in response to inventory adjustments or unanticipated increases in agency costs. We find evidence of both effects. Firms calling warrants for redemption experience negative abnormal returns on the announcement date. Negative...

We analyze the postbankruptcy cash flows for a sample of firms that emerged from Chapter 11 reorganization between 1983 and 1993. We evaluate the rate of return available to investors who owned all of the debt and equity claims on the firm as it emerged from bankruptcy. On average, this return...

We examine the relation between liquidation costs and proxies for those costs that have been used in prior capital structure studies. Liquidation costs in our sample have a strong negative relation to the fixed-to-total assets ratio, and a strong positive relation to the industry market-to-book...

Analysis of 49 prepackaged bankruptcies allows identification of the economic gains from this form of restructuring. Results show that the direct costs of prepacks are comparable to those previously reported for "traditional" bankruptcies. Firms routinely pay the pre-bankruptcy expenses of...

How much does it cost to restructure a firm's debt? What factors can explain differences in restructuring costs across firms? The central thesis of the paper is that restructuring costs should be lower when there is less competition among creditors. Understanding the size and determinants of...

An unprecedented surge in financial innovation took place during the 1980s. One of these innovations was the creation of a family of securities designed to lower the cost of preferred stock financing by widening the availability of the dividends-received deduction (a provision of the tax code...