• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Direct Equity Financing: A Resolution of a Paradox
  • Contributor: Hansen, Robert S.; Pinkerton, John M.
  • Published: American Finance Association, 1982
  • Published in: The Journal of Finance, 37 (1982) 3, Seite 651-665
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 0022-1082; 1540-6261
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  • Description: When raising new equity capital managers have historically rejected the direct offer method favoring instead the seemingly more expensive underwritten public issue. This paper provides a resolution for this equity financing paradox by demonstrating empirically that firms which engage in direct offers enjoy a comparative cost advantage that is more than sufficient to account for the absolute reported cost differences between the two methods of equity financing.