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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Top Management Incentives and the Pricing of Corporate Public Debt
Beteiligte:
Ortiz-Molina, Hernan
Erschienen:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2006
Erschienen in:Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1017/s0022109000002088
ISSN:
0022-1090;
1756-6916
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This article examines managerial ownership structure and at-issue yield spreads on corporate bonds. There is a positive relation between managerial ownership and borrowing costs, and this relation is weaker at higher levels of ownership. In addition, managerial stock options have a larger effect on yield spreads than stock ownership. These effects exist after controlling for firm and bond characteristics, and are robust to endogeneity and sample selection concerns. The evidence suggests that rational bondholders price new debt issues using the information about a firm's future risk choices contained in managerial incentive structures, and that lenders anticipate higher risk-taking incentives from managerial stock options than from equity ownership.</jats:p>