This paper investigates two elements of agency costs, namely the wealth transfer and the value destruction problems, associated with the equity-conversion and writedown CoCo bonds. By focussing on the costs as those stemming from the deviation from absolute priority rule (DAPR), we derive the...

The convex payoffs for equity holders in a corporate structure results in agency costs and moral hazard problems. The implicit government guarantee for banks accentuates these. We believe that the Basel III related bail-in contingent convertible (CoCo) structures do only not solve these...