The effects of stock splits on the bid-ask spread of syndicated loans

Bill B. Francis, Iftekhar Hasan and Mingming Zhou ()

International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance, 2013, vol. 5, issue 1/2, 159-187

Abstract: Since the seminal article by Fama et al. (1969) that splits are associated with real economic effects, existing literature is still inconclusive on whether stock splits signal private information as the signalling hypothesis predicts. Our study is motivated by the conjecture that stock splits signal private information that affects both bondholders as well as equity holders, and we empirically examine the effect of stock splits on the bid-ask spread of the syndicated loans, which serves as a measure of information asymmetry (or opaqueness) of the borrowing firm. We find that bid-ask spread of the loans significantly decreases around the splits event, implying that splits signal private information to the market, and such signalling reduces the opaqueness of the firm.

Keywords: stock splits; bid-ask spread; secondary loan market; syndicated loans; information asymmetry; private information. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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