Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-2005

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Abstract

This study examines the relationship between earnings management by firms offering seasoned equity issues and the pricing of their offers. We hypothesize that seasoned equity offering (SEO) firms employing aggressive accounting decisions also more aggressively push up their offer prices, thereby leading to a decrease in the degree of underpricing. Consistent with our prediction (the issuer's greed hypothesis), evidence indicates that SEO firms making opportunistic accounting decisions issue new shares at inflated prices. Our findings remain robust after controlling for other determinants of SEO underpricing and the possible endogeneity of pricing and earnings management.

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Originally published in Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005. Reprinted with permission.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022109000002374

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