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Seasoning Effects in Corporate Bond Markets

Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics and Finance

ISBN: 978-1-83753-865-2, eISBN: 978-1-83753-864-5

Publication date: 4 April 2024

Abstract

This chapter investigates the cost of public debt for firms using a comprehensive sample consisting of 17,368 industrial bond issues from 1970 to 2011. The empirical evidence shows that yield spreads for seasoned bond issues are significantly lower than those for initial bond issues. This seasoning effect is robust across different sample periods, subsamples, and model specifications. On average, the yield spreads for seasoned bond issues are around 50 bps lower than those for initial bond issues. This difference cannot be explained by other bond and firm characteristics. The seasoning effect is more pronounced for firms with higher levels of uncertainty, lower information disclosure quality, and longer time intervals between the first and subsequent issues. Our empirical findings provide supportive evidence for the extant theories that aim to rationalize the information role in determining the cost of capital.

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Gao, H., Jiang, R., Wang, J. and Yang, X. (2024), "Seasoning Effects in Corporate Bond Markets", Lee, C.-F. and Yu, M.-T. (Ed.) Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics and Finance (Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics and Finance, Vol. 12), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 39-76. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2514-465020240000012002

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Emerald Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2024 Haoyu Gao, Ruixiang Jiang, Junbo Wang and Xiaoguang Yang. Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited