Convertible Bonds as "Back Door" Equity Financing

Jeremy Stein

No 4028, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper argues that corporations may use convertible bonds as an indirect (albeit possibly risky) method for getting equity into their capital structures in situations where adverse selection problems make a conventional stock issue unattractive. Unlike other theories of convertible bond issuance, the model of this paper highlights: 1) the importance of call provisions on convertibles; and 2) the significance of costs of financial distress to the Information content of a convertible issue.

Date: 1992-03
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Published as Journal of Financial Economics, vol 32, no. 2 pp. 3-21 (August 1992)

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