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The maturities of newly issued convertible bonds vary substantially over time. Firm-specific determinants of maturity from the straight debt literature are relevant for convertible bonds. However, the growth of the convertible arbitrage industry and the role of convertible arbitrage hedge funds...
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This online appendix belongs to the paper "Disappearing Call Delay and Dividend-Protected Convertible Bonds" and provides a further investigation of explanators of call delay. Internet Appendix I sets out a dividend-related signaling model that can explain a delay in calling...
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Firms have not historically called their convertible bonds as soon as conversion could be forced. A number of explanations for the delay rely on the size of the dividends that bondholders forgo so long as they do not convert. We investigate an important change in convertible security design,...
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We provide evidence that security design reflects the interplay of capital supplier and security issuer preferences. While call provisions have historically been the default option in convertible security design, only a minority of post-2005 issues are callable. Because hedge funds dominate the...
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Investment characteristics and the form of external financing are linked. Factor analysis indicates that the principal determinant of the financing choice is whether an investment's payoffs can be described as a hit or miss. Hit-or-miss investments are more likely to be equity financed. Equity...
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