HCBE Faculty Articles
Title
Corporate Bond Pricing and Ownership Heterogeneity
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-2016
Publication Title
Journal of Corporate Finance
ISSN or ISBN
1872-6313
Volume
36
Issue/Number
2016
First Page
54
Last Page
74
Abstract/Excerpt
We examine how heterogeneity in institutional equity ownership affects bondholders. Firms with larger short-term (long-term) institutional ownership are associated with higher (lower) future bond yield spreads. The adverse effect of short-term ownership on bond pricing is driven by issuing firms that have larger financial distress risk and larger equity volatility. The favorable effect of long-term ownership appears to be more systematic. Further, this bond pricing effect is stronger in cases where shareholder rights are relatively weak. Finally, the effect of short (long) horizons is driven by concentrated (diffused) institutional holdings.
DOI
10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2015.11.001
NSUWorks Citation
Huang, Kershen and Petkevich, Alex, "Corporate Bond Pricing and Ownership Heterogeneity" (2016). HCBE Faculty Articles. 1029.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hcbe_facarticles/1029
