Investment commitment and the valuation of underwriting agreements for rights issues
Fernando Anjos (fernando.r.anjos@gmail.com)
Finance Research Letters, 2010, vol. 7, issue 4, 202-213
Abstract:
I extend the option pricing framework for the underwriting of rights issues, by considering that the funds received at maturity may already have been committed to a project at the time of signing of the underwriting agreement (investment commitment). The model yields valuations that are up to several times the amount implied by no investment commitment, and this is most pronounced for large issues. An upper bound for the model's explanatory power is obtained by assuming that all issues exhibit full investment commitment; under this assumption, the model explains 40-65% of the overpricing of underwriting agreements in the United Kingdom.
Keywords: Underwriting; Rights; issues (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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